Re: Comments on Half-Stars 28 Feb episode


"Ed Stasiak" <estasiak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Obveeus wrote
Dubya wrote

No rooster means no eggs.

Really? I know they stop laying eggs without a rooster around,
but do they stop the day the rooster dies or a few weeks later?

A hen will lay eggs whether there is a rooster around or not, the
rooster is only needed to fertilize the eggs so that they become
chicks.

Forever...or for weeks/months? I know we have been through this discussion
before here, but it doesn't seem particularly useful given the short
lifespan the chickens would have if we were ever on Survivor. No way would
I sit around waiting to share an egg every day or two or three.

Some animals, like humans, keep putting out eggs (ok, so the egg is more
like a human placenta than a human 'egg') regardless as to whether there are
males around, but not all animals are like that.

Remember the alt.tv.survivor gang had a discussion on this issue
back during one of the early seasons, (S4?)

I'm thinking that it was much more recently than that.

See the 2nd question;
http://chickscope.itg.uiuc.edu/about/overview/faq1.html

Fair enough. That at least tells me that chickens that have been bred to be
egg producers will keep going and going. I wonder if they 'always' did that
or if it took a few hundred years of human interaction to 'evolve' them into
it?


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