what is meant by count your chickens before they hatch?
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it refers to overly-optimistic predictions of future gains.  You have a number of fertile eggs, and you are waiting for them to hatch.  If you assume all the eggs will become healthy adults, you have counted your chickens before they hatch.  Eggs are fragile things, rodents like to steal them, not all are actually fertilized, chicks get eaten by raptors, pandemic bird flu results in the government destroying all your stock, etc etc, so in reality you won't get 100% conversion of eggs into chickens.
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This is short for 'out for a duck's egg', the duck's egg being the large nought (0) recorded on the scoreboard.\nThe expression is recorded from the 1860s.
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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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If you believe in the Bible, the chicken came first. "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven'." Genesis 1:19-20. Chickens are a type of fowl, so the Christian Bible says that chickens came first. \n\nIf you have a different religion, you might have a different belief about the how the treasures of the earth came to be. In the science of evolution, both chickens and eggs came before man. Since both the birds and the eggs were on earth first, historians weren't around to record which came first. \n\nWhichever answer you gave, it's okay. A chicken can't be born without a chicken egg and a chicken egg can't be laid without a chicken. Both chickens and eggs are important!
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The number of ducks is 4, and they are standing in single file and facing the same direction.\n\n(This assumes that when "2 ducks" is stated, this means "no more and no fewer than 2 ducks", and that the terms "in front, behind, and in between" refer to the ducks' facing.)
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People will keep asking this question... (681 times and counting)\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=ArqSG_s0jG4ok1r1mx8sEIIjzKIX?p=chicken+or+the+egg\n\nHere's my answer, cut and paste from my answer to the same question asked the other day:\n\nThere were eggs long before chickens.\n\nDinosaurs laid eggs, for example, and birds evolved from dinosaurs.\n\nGuess what, a chicken is a bird.\n\nWhatever bird chickens evolved from laid eggs, so wherever you draw the line in the sand and say "here was the first chicken", well, that chicken had a mother who laid the egg.\n\nEggs came before chickens.
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Chickens go through a rigorous training program to "train them" to lay eggs that fit the standard size egg-cups.\n\nChickens that fail to learn how to do this are generally slaughtered for chicken meat.
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Chicken - Common name for the Species gallus domesticus.\nRooster - adult male of the species Gallus domesticus. \nHen - adult female of the species gallus domesticus.\n\nA hen can't fertilise any egg. A hen is lady chicken.\n\n_________\n\n"how do roosters and chickens have sex?"\n\nYou should have just asked. Basically the roster dances aorund the hen and she squats down. He grabs her by the back of the neck or the comb with his beak and they copulate. The whole act takes about 10 seconds.
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dude.. there can never be 1.5/2.5 chickens or 1.5/2.5 eggs. Chickens and eggs come in whole numbers.
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find a hill and breed two chickens!
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it depends on if you have a chicken or not..if you do have a chicken already then the egg comes first if you dont have a chicken..then the chicken must come first.
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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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egg then chick then hen.\nThe Hen that laid the egg which developed into the species we now call the domestic chicken was slightly different from our chicken. Hence the egg came first!\n\nJ
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The chick is hatched before it becomes a hen, just as a person is a baby before he or she is an adult. I wonder if you meant to ask "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" I believe the chicken came first because it was created by God.
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There were eggs long before chickens.\n\nDinosaurs laid eggs, for example, and birds evolved from dinosaurs.\n\nGuess what, a chicken is a bird.\n\nWhatever bird chickens evolved from laid eggs, so wherever you draw the line in the sand and say "here was the first chicken", well, that chicken had a mother who laid the egg.\n\nEggs came before chickens.
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In this sense "count" means make a difference.  They are important.  They matter.\nIt is a play on words.
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54 \n\nas each chicken lays one egg every 1.5 days ie 2 eggs every 3 days and so 6 eggs every nine days\n\nThus 9 chickens will lay 9 x 6 eggs in 9 days