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Eggs are hard, how do roosters fertilise them? chickens sit on eggs even when theres nothing inside, how long will they do this before they realise nothings going to hatch? Do chickens have sex?
I know there fertilised before there layed. So there fertilised before the shell forms? Why do they sit on there eggs if nothings inside them? Without human interference how long would they do this before they realised nothing would hatch?
Chickens breed, so technically, they do have sex
The eggs develop in the hen, they aren’t just there. You can tell when she’s getting ready to lay when her bottom starts to sag.
Birds will sit on there eggs for a long time. I’ve seen geese sit on their eggs for 4 months at a time. Eventually the egg rots or explodes (they do explode, rotten, it STINKS.) Or untill you distroy the nest.
About 20 after she’s been sitting on them, you take the eggs into a dark area and shine a flashlight into them. You can see a dark spot and a smaller clear spot. Those are the fertilized ones.
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Chickens have sex, all the time, the Rooster will jump as many hens as he can in the day they have to otherwise no babies in the egg they lay every day. What made you think they were fertilized after they were laid? Only broody chickens sit on eggs and wait for them to hatch, most chickens go broody in their lives, some more than others. You have to take the eggs off them every day. 21 days to hatch, the baby can be heard by its mother hen through the shell moving about and in the final stages you can hear them cheeping from inside.
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Had chickens for years and years.
Chickens breed, so technically, they do have sex
The eggs develop in the hen, they aren’t just there. You can tell when she’s getting ready to lay when her bottom starts to sag.
Birds will sit on there eggs for a long time. I’ve seen geese sit on their eggs for 4 months at a time. Eventually the egg rots or explodes (they do explode, rotten, it STINKS.) Or untill you distroy the nest.
About 20 after she’s been sitting on them, you take the eggs into a dark area and shine a flashlight into them. You can see a dark spot and a smaller clear spot. Those are the fertilized ones.
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3 Years working at a duck farm raised about 6 chickens, over 100 geese, and way over 25,000 ducks. (ducks for dog trials)
chickens do have sex- the rooster jumps on the hens. the eggs are fertilised if you shine a bright light at the egg at one of the tips you can see the embryo inside.
if a hen goes broody she has the idea set into her mind that she wants to hatch chicks, so she sits on them, well forever if they don’t hatch.
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Sex goes before fetilisation then follows laying of a fertile egg,incubation by a broody hen or similar process in the incubator & then the pipping process followed by the hatch resulting in lovely cute little chickens . Setting broody hens to hatch eggs is an ongoing process at my farm ,have never come across a hen sitting forever on a batch of dud eggs,but then i am there to move them away after giving a grace period of a couple of days beyond the normal 21 daysI rear budgies,who do not carry on for more than a few days beyond incubation time,known them to discard eggs out of the nest.
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Observation & experience.
chickens do have sex to fertilise the eggs.each hen has a egg cycle it can range from 10 to 50.once this cycle has been layed it triggers the hen to want to set.if eggs are fertile it will take 21 days to hatch the eggs.im not sure how long they will sit on unfertile eggs.although i have taken the chicks and replaced with more eggs which is a total of 42 days.a few hens when put in a pen with a nest tried to continue sitting after the 42 days.so if this should happen take the nest out or move her to a pen without a nest.
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