When a hen lays an egg which end comes out first?
The large end. • Where, on a laying hen’s anatomy, does an egg come out? My friend says it’s….rear, I say from a different orifice. There are two separate ducts; one for eggs and the other for waste, but one shared exit. Waste never comes into contact with egg, due to duct design. To read more detailed explanation, read “Laying An Egg” by Wiebe H. van der Molen. Thanks for Wendy for giving me this information!! Sexing • How can you tell the gender of chickens? If they are older chickens you can tell by the crowing. If the chicken crows it’s a rooster, and if not it’s a hen. Also usually the roosters have much larger combs, but not all the time. If they are chicks you will just have to wait until they crow. Some professionals can tell the chicks gender when they are small, but even they aren’t perfect. Want to give it a shot though? Try this website: Sexing chicks • Can chickens change their sex? (If the rooster dies, then will one hen change into a rooster?) UPDATE: For a couple year
The large end. • Where, on a laying hen’s anatomy, does an egg come out? My friend says it’s….rear, I say from a different orifice. There are two separate ducts; one for eggs and the other for waste, but one shared exit. Waste never comes into contact with egg, due to duct design. To read more detailed explanation, read “Laying An Egg” by Wiebe H. van der Molen. Thanks for Wendy for giving me this information!! Sexing • How can you tell the gender of chickens? If they are older chickens you can tell by the crowing. If the chicken crows it’s a rooster, and if not it’s a hen. Also usually the roosters have much larger combs, but not all the time. If they are chicks you will just have to wait until they crow. Some professionals can tell the chicks gender when they are small, but even they aren’t perfect. Want to give it a shot though? Try this website: Sexing chicks • Can chickens change their sex? (If the rooster dies, then will one hen change into a rooster?) For many years I had answ
The large end. • Where, on a laying hen’s anatomy, does an egg come out? My friend says it’s….rear, I say from a different orifice. There are two separate ducts; one for eggs and the other for waste, but one shared exit. Waste never comes into contact with egg, due to duct design. To read more detailed explanation, read “Laying An Egg” by Wiebe H. van der Molen. Thanks for Wendy for giving me this information!! • What is the white spot attached to the yolk of an egg? I always assumed it had something to do with fertilization. It is called Chalazae and is made up of the same substance as the egg-white (Albumen) and has nothing to do with fertilization. It’s purpose is to keep the yolk correctly oriented in the egg. (According to wikipedia: “In animal eggs, the chalaza is composed of one or two spiral bands of tissue that suspend the yolk in the center of the white. It acts similar to an umbilical cord in mammals; the growing embryo receives its nutrients from the yolk. The purpose of
