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krattalak t1_iu8ei5d wrote

Each hen will lay approx 1-2 eggs daily starting at 6mo of age regardless if there's a rooster or not. If you have a rooster, then most of those eggs will hatch, otherwise they go to the market.

There are at any given point, about 25 billion chickens in the world.

The state of Iowa has 60 million chickens.

Each chicken only needs to have one chick to replace itself. Over it's lifetime, a chicken can produce 1000s more chickens if you remove the eggs and put them into incubators fast enough.

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