1. How often does a chicken lay an egg? Once a day. As they get older they lay every other and then less and less often. But once a day is a s often as they can because it takes 24 hours for an egg to form.
2. Are Chickens vegetarians? Definitely not. In fact, they are cannibals. If one chicken dies sometimes others will eat it, or if one gets a bad cut and the others get interested they might peck it to death. None of ours have done this, however, last year we found lots of blood splattered in our chick box. We hadn't noticed because it was dark. The chicks had been eating one of the chick's toes. She might have cut it which caught the others attention or it just looked like a worm. So, no they're not vegetarians. We also give them meat in their scrap bin every morning.
3. Health food stores up here in PA say that fertilized eggs
are better than unfertilized. Is that
true? And can you explain that to me a
little more? Here is what I found on this...
This is from a forum, so it was just posted by someone who raises chickens.
There is NO difference in taste. Just don't let your hens sit on the eggs and THEN try to eat them b/c they'll have half-formed chicks. As long as you collect them daily there's no problem and no difference in taste or nutritional value.
This is from the forum too, but it's more about taste.
The eggs laid by chickens that eat green stuff, a variety of weed and grass seeds, fruits and vegetables, and/or creepy crawlies instead of just the prepared food mix will taste different from a factory raised egg. It will look different because the yolk will stand up better, That's because it is fresher. The yolk will be darker yellow or orange or even reddish because of what the chicken has been eating. None of this has anything to do with a rooster.
Many people that have backyard flocks feed their chickens differently than the egg factories feed their hens. The eggs look and taste different. Many people with backyard or barnyard flocks keep roosters. Since the eggs taste different from the store bought eggs, I can easily see where someone would blame it on a rooster. You actually get that a lot on this forum. I don't consider it silly, I just consider it something someone doesn't know but has believed someone when they were told a story. There is a lot I don't know and I'm sure I have accepted false explanations about some things myself.
When you do get eggs, they could very well taste different from the eggs you get from somebody else's backyard flock. That's because the hens are eating different things, not because some are fertile.
Hope that answered your question since I wasn't sure. Other things say basically the same, that there is no taste difference, but a few said there may be more nutrients in the fertilized ones. P.S. I'm posting this while eating fertilized eggs right now for lunch(yes I checked to see if there were fertilized*). I don't know about the nutritional value but they sure are tasty!
* Check out "Chick-a-doodle" to see how to recognize fertilized eggs.
Have an awesome day!
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This is from a forum, so it was just posted by someone who raises chickens.
Many people that have backyard flocks feed their chickens differently than the egg factories feed their hens. The eggs look and taste different. Many people with backyard or barnyard flocks keep roosters. Since the eggs taste different from the store bought eggs, I can easily see where someone would blame it on a rooster. You actually get that a lot on this forum. I don't consider it silly, I just consider it something someone doesn't know but has believed someone when they were told a story. There is a lot I don't know and I'm sure I have accepted false explanations about some things myself.
When you do get eggs, they could very well taste different from the eggs you get from somebody else's backyard flock. That's because the hens are eating different things, not because some are fertile.
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