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How a Chicken Lays an Egg Inside of an Egg
March 7, 2022 · jpitino · Eggs & Meat
Occasionally, a hen will lay an egg inside of an egg, a phenomenon called counter-peristalsis contraction, and it occurs while the hen is forming an egg in her oviduct.
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How to Hatch Chicken Eggs
June 18, 2020 · Countryside Magazine Contributor · Chickens 101
It is time to begin preparations for breeding and collecting eggs for hatching. Anyone can have great success in learning how to hatch chicken eggs; all that is necessary is to provide good conditions that work in accord with the nature of the birds, and the cycle of reproduction. So where do we begin?
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Ask the Expert —December 2015/January 2016
January 20, 2016 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Ask The Expert
Add to Favorites Broody For Too Long? We have a six-month-old Bantam hen, “Little Girl,” who has been brooding for 24 days. We took away her eggs in the chicken …
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