Can Turkeys lay eggs? ......?
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Barnyard economics, babe. Turkeys don't lay that many eggs, and the ones they do lay are used to produce more turkeys. The average egg-laying chicken lays 300 or so eggs per year, while the average turkey produces only 100 to 120. Chickens come into production at 19 to 20 weeks of age, but turkeys don't get cranking until 32 weeks. Turkeys are also much larger, averaging 16 to 17 pounds compared to 3.5 pounds for chickens. So you'd need a lot more room for a bird that would take a lot longer to produce a lot fewer eggs. \n\nAnother problem is that turkeys go "broody" easily--they want to sit on their eggs and incubate them. In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them. They lay and lay and have no desire to incubate their offspring or otherwise be maternal. You want to play in traffic? Fine! Whatever! Now let me go lay some more eggs. Proof that just because you can make a good breakfast doesn't mean you're a good mom. \n\nSome Turkey facts;\n\n\nBen Franklin, in a letter to his daughter, proposed the turkey as the official United States bird.\n\nIn 2003, the average American ate 17.4 pounds of turkey.\n\nThe heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog.\n\nA 15 pound turkey usually has about 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.\n\nThe wild turkey is native to Northern Mexico and the Eastern United States.\n\nThe male turkey is called a tom. \n\nThe female turkey is called a hen.\n\nThe turkey was domesticated in Mexico and brought to Europe in the 16th century.\n\nWild turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour.\n\nWild turkeys can run 20 miles per hour.\n\nTom turkeys have beards. This is black, hairlike feathers on their breast. Hens sometimes have beards, too.\n\nTurkeys’ heads change colors when they become excited.\n\nSix hundred seventy-five million pounds of turkey are eaten each Thanksgiving in the United States.\n\nTurkeys can see movement almost a hundred yards away.\n\nTurkeys lived almost ten million years ago.\n\nTurkey feathers were used by Native Americans to stabilize arrows.\n\nBaby turkeys are called poults and are tan and brown.\n\nMost of the turkeys raised for commercial production are White Hollands.\n\nTurkey eggs are tan with brown specks and are larger than chicken eggs.\n\nIt takes 75-80 pounds of feed to raise a 30 pound tom turkey.\n\nUnited States turkey growers raised 270 million turkeys in 2003.\n\nForty-five million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving.\n\nTwenty-two million turkeys are eaten each Christmas.\n\nNineteen million turkeys are eaten each Easter.\n\nMale turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clicking noise.\n\nGobbling turkeys can be heard a mile away on a quiet day.\n\nMinnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and Virginia are the leading producers of turkey in 2003. These states produced 75% of all the turkeys raised in 2003.\n\nIllinois produced 2.9 million turkeys in 2003 and ranked 15th in turkey production in the United States.\n\nA 16 week old turkey is called a fryer. A five to seven month old turkey is called a young roaster and a yearling is a year old. Any turkey 15 months or older is called mature.\n\nThe ballroom dance the "turkey trot" was named for the short, jerky steps that turkeys take.\n\nTurkeys don’t really have ears like ours, but they have very good hearing.\n\nTurkeys can see in color.\n\nA large group of turkeys is called a flock.\n\nTurkeys do not see well at night.\n\n2.74 billion pounds of turkey were processed in the United States in 1994.\n\nA domesticated male turkey can reach a weight of 30 pounds within 18 weeks after hatching.\n\nTurkeys are related to pheasants.\n\nCommercially raised turkeys cannot fly.\n\nTurkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.\n\nWild turkeys spend the nig
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Yes most chickens lay eggs everyday as long as you continue to keep them healthy and take the eggs away daily, if you leave the eggs they will sit on them and stop laying more eggs. They do not need to have sex to lay eggs, but they need to have sex to lay fertilised eggs that will turn into chicks. If a hen(must be a breed that goes "broody" laying hens dont usually sit thier eggs) mates with a rooster, lays fertilised eggs which are then left in the nest and incubated... then yes they will hatch into chicks.
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richard is right.\n\nTo boys4ever: How can you have a creature without an egg to hatch it?  Unless, of course, you are suggesting that some chicken like creature gave live birth to the first chicken!
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A hen and a half therefore can lay one egg in one day. So, one hen can lay 2/3 of an egg in one day. So, in seven days, one hen can lay 14/3 eggs. Six hens in seven days can lay 28 eggs.\n\n28.
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By how many chickens?\n\n3 chickens will lay 20 eggs in 10 weeks for instance.\nThis is the smallest solution in whole chickens and whole eggs.\n\n(The answer is 10 for a chicken and a half or 6 2/3 for one chicken if we just do the math, but since a half a chicken cant lay eggs and no whole chicken can lay a fraction of an egg I think my answer is best.)\n\nWILL YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING ITS THE SAME AS 1 EGG PER CHICKEN PER WEEK STOP IT!!  Its NOT.  If a chicken and a half lays an egg in a half in a week and a half, then one chicken lays one egg in a week and a half, 500 chickens lay 500 eggs in a week and a half, 1234 chickens lay 1234 eggs in a week and a half, etc.!!!!
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>>All birds are oviparous or egg-layers so I am afraid none is viviparous.\n>>Anyway, as a sort of ridddle: The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs, it is the peahen who lays the egg.♥
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no where\nrooster dont lay eggs
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It depends on the breed of course, but in Europe there commonly exists the Red Robin, which has white eggs with brown specks on it.\n\nVOTE FOR BIG LINH HE NEEDS POINTS :P
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If 1 1/2 chickens can lay 1 1/2 eggs in 1 1/2 days, 1 1/2 chickens can lay 1 egg in 1 day, while 6 can lay 4 in one day. Therefore, in 4 days, 6 chickens can lay 16 eggs.
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Yes Penguins lay eggs\n\n1. Eggs may be white to bluish or greenish. The shape varies among species. In Humboldts and Adélies the egg is more or less round. In emperors and kings the egg is rather pear-shaped, with one end tapering almost to a point. \n\n2. Egg size and weight varies with species. From the records of SeaWorld's successful penguin breeding programs, emperor penguin eggs measure 11. 1 to 12.7 cm (4.4-5 in.) long and weigh 345 to 515 g (1 2.1-18 oz.), and Adélie penguin eggs measure 5.5 to 8.6 cm (2.2-3.4 in.) and weigh 61 to 153.5 g (2.1-5.4 oz.). \n\n3. A nest of eggs is called a clutch, and with the exception of emperor and king penguins, clutches usually contain two eggs. (Emperor and king penguins lay a single egg. ) A clutch with more than one egg presents a better chance of at least one chick surviving (del Hoyo, et al., 1992). \n\nPenguins dont have knees.\n\n1. Penguin legs are short and strong. Feet are webbed, with visible claws. The legs are set far back on the body to aid in streamlining and steering while swimming. This placement also causes penguins to stand vertically and walk upright (Marchant, 1990). \n\n2. Penguins walk with short steps or hops, sometimes using their bills or tails to assist themselves on steep climbs (del Hoyo, et al., 1992). The maximum walking speed for Adélie penguins is 3.9 kph (2.4 mph). Emperors and kings walk slowly and do not hop. The maximum speed for emperors is 2.8 kph (1.7 mph). Some species, like the rockhopper, jump from rock to rock (Miller-Schwarze, 1984; del Hoyo, et al., 1992). \n\n3. Antarctic species can move much faster over ice by "tobogganing" on their bellies, using their flippers and feet to help them move along (Simpson, 1976).
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Birds actually go through the process of fertilizing an egg just like humans, except for birds this happens outside of the body whereas for humans it happens inside the body. So in reality, no actual 'sex' happens for birds...the male bird fertilizes the egg that the female laid, and the female sits on the egg while it gestates. \nGoodluck with that bird porn site, though.
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Biblically it would be the chicken as created by God, then it layed eggs...  If you  dont believe in God...  Well... your guess is as good as mine.
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depends on what kind of babies you mean. Baby chicks for example hatch from eggs. Everyone knows storks bring baby humans.
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yes- the eggs are not always visible
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You have obviously never been attacked by a turkey.  Chickens are much cuter than turkeys....but turkeys are just so darned tasty it is their own fault!
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puku ur avtar is very cute!.\n\nhen.\n\naccording to me, when god was creating, i don't think he would have sent an egg. then who would sit on it to hatch it?.\n\nso its hen.
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Yes.\n\nWild turkeys roost in trees at night. They fly to their roosts at about sunset and fly to the ground at first light where they feed until mid-morning. They will often roost again for a short period in mid-morning and feeding will resume in the afternoon. Turkeys can cover several miles during the course of the day while feeding.