Sentences with phrase «lay eggs until»

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For most, though, we can't tell until they start laying eggs.»

It gets dark around here practically right after lunch and then doesn't get light again until after my twelfth coffee so there is basically just enough sunlight to foster the entire Macaroni flock laying a collective one egg a day.

Lay two of the bread slices mayo side up in the egg batter and let them soak until about half of the egg is absorbed.

The female lays her eggs in his pouch, where he fertilizes them and carries the developing young until they hatch.

As a biological feat, it was the equivalent of an 80 - year - old woman giving birth: Because of a mutation, Coleen Murphy's worms were still fertile and laying eggs right up until the end of their lives.

From the time that hatchlings left the beaches where they were born to waddle into the ocean until females returned to lay their eggs, no one really knew where the turtles went or what they did.

Until this discovery, it was known only in fish, amphibians, and two egg - laying mammals, or monotremes, the platypus and echidna.

By watching the eggs until they hatched, she could pinpoint the time they had been laid — on an evening when two suspects had been seen near where the bears» bodies had been dumped.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

After laying eggs in the sand, the female scoops them up in her mouth to brood them until hatching, which poses a logistical challenge for fertilization.

The end result: both sexual partners died within several weeks, but not until after the females each laid thousands of eggs to carry the freak show to future generations.

Other octopus species would win the gold medal of parental sacrifice: After laying their eggs, females starve to death in order to protect them until they hatch.

Dip chicken strip in the flour, then the egg mixture then the coconut and lay strip on cookie sheet (repeat until all are coated)

I had never laid eyes on Scotch eggs until moving to Alaska — and now they seem to be everywhere I turn!

It will help you to decide whether to keep layers or broilers, prepare the chicken coop, bring the chicks home, feed them and protect them from environmental hazards and diseases and feed them until they are fully grown and ready to lay eggs or ready for slaughter.

The goose laying it's golden eggs ever more quickly sounds like a great idea, until it dies of exhaustion.

Female fleas most often lay eggs on your pet's coat, but these rapidly fall off and live undetected from one to 12 days until they hatch.

So although we can get rid of worms from the dog today, if the poop lay around for any length of time, the eggs are in the soil and will be there until they are ingested by an appropriate host.

Fleas lay eggs on your cat, which then fall off and go through a growth cycle, until they become adult fleas.

The fleas will breed, lay eggs and reside within this «colony» until they need another blood meal.

In a cat that does have Toxoplasmosis, the eggs that are laid in the environment (litter pan) do not become infective until 24 hours have passed.

The number of flea eggs laid then declines until it reaches the lowest point shortly after sunrise.

The adult flea will lay eggs continuously until dying.

Mother Caray Green Sea Turtles visit the beaches in the Riviera Maya to lay their eggs and as part of our environmental efforts we protect the nests until they hatch.

The giant, ancient, endangered turtles, some the size of a Smart Car, have until now only been known to nest in four spots in the United States — with about three dozen females a year laying eggs on beaches along the east coast of Florida and slightly larger nesting populations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.