how are chicken eggs fertilized vs. the kind we eat???
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They are fertilized by the rooster!  The chickens people raise on their own usually they have a rooster if they want to have the eggs fertilized,then they have to have a hen that is called a setter,that will sit on the eggs,protect them and keep them warm until the babies hatch.  You CAN eat farm fresh eggs that are fertilized though too. You can tell if they are fertilized because there will be a small blood spot in the white of the egg.    \n\nThe eggs you get from the store are not fertilized because the chickens produce eggs on their own.  You don't need a rooster to get an egg from a chicken.  You only need a rooster to fertilize eggs.\n\nThe rooster mounts the hen and then use your imagination!  It is similar to human eggs being fertilized.  Only difference is the rooster can fertilize MANY eggs a day! Especially if he has a lot of hens to choose from.
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Most would say the chicken, which is NOT true;\n\n"The egg! The amniotic egg (though not a chicken egg) was around on earth thousands of years before the chicken ever evolved."\n\nEggs existed long before chickens, according to On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee. These all-in-one reproductive cells, incorporating the nutrients to support life, evolved about a billion years ago. The first eggs were hatched in the ocean. As animal life emerged from the water about 250 million years ago, they began producing an egg with a tough leathery skin to prevent dehydration of its contents on dry land. The chicken evolved only about 5,000 years ago from an Asian bird.\n\nWhat makes a chicken "more evolved" than a fly?  Is it because a chicken is bigger than a fly?  Both flies and chickens have had the same amount of time to evolve to their present state.  The ancestors of chickens and flies split\noff from their common ancestor a long time ago, but both have continued to evolve since then.
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Chicks came from chickens. Chickens came from eggs. Babies come from different origins...ok?
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Raw whole eggs are a phenomenally inexpensive and incredible source of high-quality nutrients that many of us are deficient in, especially high-quality protein and fat.\n\nYou can read more about the myths of eating raw eggs at the link below....
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this question has been asked many times, not just throughout time but also many times just here on yahoo answers.  i say "egg"... for a thorough explanation you can look up my answers.\n\ni just find it very interesting that when asked in the "pets" forum, most people say something religious to support their claim that chickens came first, and on the "science" forum, more people say "egg" and support their claim with "science has proved...."\n\nmeh, science never really proves anything... but this one just requires a little thought about the true nature of the question.  it would be a little more difficult to answer if it was "which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"  but no one ever asks that question, so we're all safe.  whew.  :)
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The egg, because chickens are the result of evolution, so the egg is the correct answer
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The egg from something like a chicken.\n\nOr, from another point of view,\n\nThe egg came for breakfast and the chicken for lunch!
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eggs are very healthy and very high in protien. Contray to health reports in the past which they have changed their minds on anyways. Now the health studies are saying that eggs are healthy for you after all. fresh eggs are actually better for you than store bought eggs only because the chicken tend to get a loit of sun light which offers lots of extra vitamins.
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what do u like to have .. chicken or the egg??\norder now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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egg... there are fish eggs before chicken eggs
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An egg produced by "natural means" or by "artificial insemination" are exactly the same.  The only difference would come by what the hen was eating during the developement of the egg.  If she is commercially used to lay eggs, then she is fed a chicken scratch and corn diet.  If she is free range then she eats whatever she finds on the ground (worms, bugs, seeds).  In which case the free range hen would have a more flavorful egg regardless of how the egg was started.
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The egg.\nBefore chickens evloved into chickens, they were some other species that laid egss.\nOf course, if you are a creationist, you'll dispute that.
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It has the potential to be a chicken when it is fertilised (which most eggs aren't). It becomes a chicken when it hatches.
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A few facts. Eggs that are on the market are not fertilized. Eggs that have been refrigerated will not hatch.(those from the store)\n\nIf you can get fertilized eggs, keep them warm.Chicks require a high temperature also.  Although there should be a 50 : 50 ratio of male to female, males are weeded out of the mix very early. Those are the ones that are available for Easter chicks. Chickens eat their weight every day. \n\nI do not know what you have available, but you could make a hypothesis regarding the color of the eggs and the color of the chicks.
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may be i can interpret your question this way.. why do chickens in the course of evolution formed in the way that they lay eggs, and in the same way why do humans give birth..\n\nin this case i can suggest you to think about the different modes of multiplications. chickens opted to go for the egg mode, which they found reliable and fit for survival. as evolution proceeded humans were formed and they were fit with the baby mode of multiplication.
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The eggs that are produced in a poultry farm for table purpose only, are unfertilized ones. These are obtained from a specially developed hens that are called 'layers'. These birds begin to lay eggs as soon as they become mature and for that they need not come in contact with a rooster (male bird). On an average they give one egg per day and continue to give at that rate for a year or so. When the average comes down and it becomes un profitable to maintain that bird, it is culled or killed for its flesh; but it is not of good quality and far from tender.\nFor table purpose there are different birds that are called 'Broilers'. They are not for eggs but for the flesh or meat only. It is tender and delicious.\nLastly the table eggs or the unfertilized ones are no way inferior to the fertilized eggs in nutrition but they have very good keeping quality i.e. they remain unspoilt for a long period with out refrigeration.\nOnly fertilized eggs can produce new bird after the incubation period of 21 days. There are separate hatcheries for that. Here the rooster and the hen are allowed to meet.\n'White leghorn' is a well known breed of poultry birds, One variety is only for table (broiler) and the other is exclusively for eggs (Layer).
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Actually, first came the rooster and the chicken.  A chicken alone cannot lay fertilized eggs.  It takes fertilized eggs to have more chickens and roosters.\n\nIf the egg came first, it would have died.  There would have been no one to fertilize it, lay it, or hatch it.  If a lone chicken, by some miracle had hatched from said egg, there would have been no roosters to fertilize more eggs, thus no more chickens or eggs.\n\nIf it is true that such an egg existed, that needed no care, fertilization, or hatching, we are degenerating rather than progressing.  Our eggs are highly dependent in order to be of any use.