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If you've ever looked an egg and felt a little curious about it, then this is the list for you! We were quite shocked by some of these tidbits.

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Egg-straordinarily good for you
There's a good reason why fitness freaks and fanatics guzzle eggs as part of their daily workout routine, and it's because the protein in eggs is almost as good for growing bodies as a mother's milk. Eggs also contain almost every important nutrient our bodies need, including vitamin D, which isn't found in too many places outside sunshine. Perhaps it shouldn't be altogether surprising though, since an egg contains the chicken equivalent of mother's milk and is intended to nourish a growing feathery body so it can grow up to be a happy and healthy Sunday lunch.

Egg-sperience matters
It takes practice and experience to get really good at something, and that counts for laying eggs too. When you're after that perfect large egg to complete your usual Saturday morning fried egg sandwich, don't make the mistake of looking to the big hens, or the sprightly young things making all the noise, but instead look for experience. Because a chicken isn't born laying large eggs, they usually start out quite small and get bigger as the hen gets older. Eggs vary in size, weighing as little as 1.25 ounces and growing to over 2.5 ounces on occasion. There are always exceptions though: in 2010 a six-month old hen called Harriet laid a world record egg that measured 9.1 inches around the middle, nearly twice the average of 5.5 inches. But fame came at a price for poor Harriet, who was reportedly left limping by the experience.

Vas-egg-tomy not required
It's easy to make analogies between human and chicken reproductive processes and think of every egg as the chicken equivalent of a screaming baby just waiting to get out of the shell, but that's not the case. A chicken will lay an egg whether it has spent a passionate night with a cockerel or not. Modern laying hens can produce over 300 eggs a year without so much as flirting with a boy chicken, which is good news if you're plagued with images of chicks in your frying pan, but bad news for the hens.

Egg-sclusions apply
No-one does good work when they're tired, and that counts for chickens too. When a chicken is kept awake at night by predators, or otherwise stressed, it can manifest in an egg being laid without a shell. That doesn't mean raw egg all over the nest box, but rather an egg that's contained by just a flexible membrane, making the egg soft and wobbly to touch but otherwise safe to eat. Other causes for shell-less eggs are a lack of calcium in the diet and old age, so it seems chickens can get forgetful too.

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