Sentences with phrase «lay smaller eggs»

Mallard females, for example, lay smaller eggs when mated to less - preferred males, while female canaries deposit less testosterone in their eggs when exposed to less - attractive male songs.

In superb fairy - wrens (Malurus cyaneus), mothers breeding in the presence of helpers lay smaller eggs of lower nutritional content that produce lighter chicks, as compared with those laying eggs in the absence of helpers.

Female fairy - wrens lay smaller eggs when «nanny» males are available to help feed the young, reducing the mothers» reproductive investment and increasing their survival.

Not exact matches

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

Besides a house and a tool shed, the other building on their small acreage was a chicken coop where the egg - laying hens roosted.

the chicken or the egg??? The egg developed when the chicken (aka - small dinosaur) evolved from giving live birth to laying eggs, after larger predators began dieing off.

Sidenote: I am always afraid to leave rice in an opened box, no matter how small that opening is, because I think some bugs will make their way in there, lay their eggs and I'll swallow them and I'll die.

I agree with this comment, as well as with the others on industrial agriculture, though I do want to mention that there are small town, local and organic farmers out there who treat animals and the environment well — while I do not support the dairy or egg industry, I love to see our friend Bob's hens running around wild, pecking at bugs, etc. and we will eat those eggs, which are seasonal because hens naturally lay more during certain times of the year.

this beautifully sunny, hot, hot, hot midday I saw multiple Small Tortoiseshell butterflies egg - laying on scrappy bits of rough ground in the urban East End.

But if the eggs are laid into a fecally - contaminated area, such as the nest boxes at most small farms I have visited or just onto the ground, then as they cool and the cuticle dries, whatever bacteria were present in the feces are drawn INTO the egg, where they can live and multiply and make you sick.

«The platypus belongs to the monotreme family, a small group of mammals that lay eggs and produce milk to feed their young.

It didn't seem to matter whether a snake was big or small, whether it lived primarily in water or burrowed on land, or whether it laid many eggs or just a few.

In addition to the fungicidal fungi, scientists have also seen small bugs laying their eggs in the infected ant corpse, where their larvae can then eat the growing fungus.

The secret, the team reports in the 17 August issue of Science, was that eggs laid by females in cooperative groups were 5 % smaller than those laid by females who bred in pairs, and their yolks had 12 % less lipids and 13 % less protein.

So females that lay a larger number of smaller eggs end up with more surviving offspring.

Lice are small insects about the size of a grain of rice that lay small whitish or brownish eggs called nits.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

Any gravid — pregnant — female that wants to leavethe marsh must make a small contribution to science before she «spermitted to seek out a place to lay her eggs on the other side of thefence.

To minimise the risk of this, the founder insect may only build a small gall, which is quickly completed, enabling her to lay soldier eggs sooner.

He saw an enormous amount: that small species lay fewer eggs than large ones; that some build webs and some hunt; that some spiders» eggs are parasitised; that spiders «shed a complete skin, not excepting even the jaws»; and that young spiderlings throw out a length of silk and use it to float off on the wind — although he saw this as a hunting technique, a madcap aerial pursuit of winged insects, rather than, as we do now, a means of dispersal.

Each cage was placed so that the queen could not reach the large cells where she could lay drone eggs but only the small cells where she could lay worker eggs.

Many of the newly discovered species lay eggs that develop directly without tadpoles and they typically have small to...

Many of the newly discovered species lay eggs that develop directly without tadpoles and they typically have small to... AmphibiaWeb

• Calcium will come from rabbit bone broth, with more minor amounts from the carcasses of chickens that have finished laying, egg shells, small amounts from nutrient - dense fruit, vegetables and nuts, as well as significant calcium, other essential minerals and hormones from nettle tea and other weeds such as chickweed and cleavers.

Pasture - raised eggs are simply the best eggs that you can find: Laid by hens that get to spend their days outside on fresh pastures — not cooped up in small cages or huddled by the thousands in cage - free barns.

She'd set up a chair and small table and laid the eggs on a towel to dry.

(a cough may be present at this time) This time around, they attach to the walls of the pet's small intestine where they feed on blood, mature, and eventually lay more eggs that repeat the cycle.

(The larvae is often coughed up and then swallowed again and then returns to the small intestine where it matures and lays eggs).

The worms will mature in the kitten's small bowel where they lay eggs that will eventually be passed in the kitten's feces.

That's why ACANA Puppy Small Breed is loaded with free - run chicken, wild - caught flounder and whole nest - laid eggs, delivered FRESH in WholePrey ™ ratios, so they're brimming with goodness and taste.

A female flea can lay up to 50 eggs a day, so it is no wonder you can go from one flea to hundreds in a very small space of time, and why being late with flea medications can be a big problem.

Roundworms reside in your dog's small intestines, laying eggs and feeding on intestinal contents.

Flea eggs are small white particles, similar in size to flea dirt, that fleas lay in a pet's hair coat.

In part two of my travel video series from Maui, Hawaii, I travel to Paia, the small, laid - back beach town on the northern coast of Maui, to track down the famed breakfast dish called the Loco Moco (rice, brown gravy and a hamburger patty topped with a fried egg).

Moon Snail: Polinices species Small, globular, 1/2», white to grey snail, that lay their sandy donut shaped egg cases (1» in diameter) in the shallow intertidal.

Federal scientists blame successive building booms, the clatter of civilization, encroachment by nonnative vegetation and predation by crows, ravens, cats and dogs for the demise of the tiny gray and white birds that lay their eggs in small sandy depressions with easy access to ocean water.

Females reach reproductive age after 35 - 40 years, and even though they usually lay 100s of eggs each season, only a small fraction of these teeny hatchlings will go on to become grown ups.

From here, one can see Los Cayos Siete Hermanos (The Seven Brothers Cays)-- several small offshore islands that offer refuge to 10 species of reptiles, including the American crocodile and sea turtles that return each year to lay their eggs.

Santa Teresa needs to get organized for this, because just north at Manzanillo and above, it has been discovered that all four of Costa Rica's sea turtles are laying eggs, making it one of just a small handful of sites in the world with so many sea turtle species in one location.

A prana devil could run around the map laying eggs that would sprout smaller prana devils, which would then harry your opponent while you lined up a powerful bite.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

90 % - The Horror The Turtles of my childhood were just small Sometimes I would get one for myself Sometimes I would just see one in the woods But then they sprayed with DDT and I had asthma and soon moved closer to the city Now I'm older and I saw a turtle laying it's eggs by the side of a path So did a black bird and after the turtle went back to the pond the blackbird stole it's eggs and thought they were good to eat Another turtle came along since then but I don't think it laid any eggs.

That's Rartjarasoaniony's shop, in which she sells a bit of everything — kitchen sponges, eggs laid by her hens and freshly brewed coffee, which she hands out to customers in small metal cups, rinsed in a bucket of water from a communal pump.

Monroe, NH About Blog Learn more about our Certified Humane, free - range hens and the eggs they lay; understand how our small family farms operate compared to factory farms.