Some researchers examined prehistoric fossils and some tweaked the question a little bit, but everyone came upon the same answer.

This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

The chick’s head tucks under the right wing to prepare for hatching. Day 16: The albumen is almost completely consumed. Day 17: The beak moves into the air space.

Deploying such a technology would not only make chick culling obsolete, it would also allow the industry to repurpose unwanted male eggs for food, animal feed, or vaccine development.

Depending on how many eggs they accommodate and how automated they are, Incubators run from around $50 for the homesteader favorite ‘Hova-Bator’ into the thousands of dollars for commercial scale ...

On 5 June 2016, the Facebook page "Spoon & Tamago" published a video purportedly showing a group of high school students hatching a chick without an eggshell "for the first time in history": ...

In 2019, they had two chicks. In 2022, they had one hatchling and another egg, which did not hatch. Last year, they had a trio of eggs, stirring excitement among fans, but none hatched.

The first two years are a chicken’s best egg-laying years, Lilley said. Once chickens get older, they start to slow down, but the upside is the size of the egg gets larger.