Leo dracula
Interesting facts of chicken egg fertility that you may not know. 🪶 It is possible to have a rooster and a hen that are active but a hen can still lay eggs that are not fertile: I know you may be wondering how, and here is the explanation. Unlike other birds where you find partners, in chickens there is no courtship or romance. A rooster just forces himself on the hen. So what happens is when a rooster mates a hen, his injected semen is stored in numerous sperm storage tubules (SSTs) located in the area where the hen’s uterus joins the vagina. But this only happens provided the hen likes the rooster. If she doesn’t, she can squirt out the semen to avoid hatching his offspring. Therefore a hen may still proceed to lay eggs that are not fertile despite even mating with a rooster every day. 🪶 Even if the hen approves the rooster, some eggs may still not be fertile: Since the sperm is released shortly after an egg is laid, and each egg takes approximately 25 hours to develop, an egg
About Leo dracula
Interesting facts of chicken egg fertility that you may not know. 🪶 It is possible to have a rooster and a hen that are active but a hen can still lay eggs that are not fertile: I know you may be wondering how, and here is the explanation. Unlike other birds where you find partners, in chickens there is no courtship or romance. A rooster just ...Read more