Sentences with phrase «lay their eggs year»

Though the exact function of TSHR is unknown, it may be linked to the domestic chicken's ability to lay eggs year - round — a trait that Red Junglefowl and other wild birds don't have.

When presented with a place to lay their eggs year - round, many monarchs don't bother making the trip to Mexico at all.

The hotel's name aptly named after the stunning 1500 foot stretch of white sand beach where sea turtles return to lay their eggs year after year.

Casa de Las Palmas is on Tortuga Beach and as the name suggest is a place were turtles come to lay their eggs every year.

Not exact matches

China produced over 30 percent of the 1 trillion eggs that were laid last year which has raised numerous environmental concerns on the continent.

In a sign of just how strong demand for eggs is this year, separate data from the US Department of Agriculture showed there were 385.6 million laying hens in the US at the start of March, the highest over a comparable period in at least a decade.

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.

-- More than 100 big brands, from Walmart to McDonalds, committing to phasing out battery cages for egg - laying hens over the next 3 to 10 years.

He has noted in the past that more than a trillion eggs are laid every year, and in the U.S. a third of them end up in things like mayo and muffins.

It was believed that eggs laid on Good Friday, if kept for a 100 years would become diamonds.

(Answers: 1) because they lived and died millions of years before humans and extant forms; 2) because humans and dinosaurs never coexisted; 3) this simply didn't happen, but the creationist response is apparently, and ironically, «hyper - evolution» from severely bottle - necked gene pools; and 4) because we share a common ancestor with egg - laying organisms)

There I studied not arithmetic, geography, physics, chemistry, or history, but the laws governing an egg laid on a holiday and sacrifices in a temple destroyed two thousand years ago.

Animals have been laying hard - shelled eggs for at least 140 million years.

Now hens bodies have been bred to lay almost 260 - 300 eggs per year!

See, in the wild chickens lay only 12 to 20 eggs per year.

This year alone, there will be 15 million fewer egg - laying hens in battery cages, and by 2025, nearly all of the laying hens in the U.S. will be raised cage - free.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.

Battery cages were the norm for egg - laying hens just a few years ago, but like gestation crates for sows — now banned in 9 states — chickens have an abysmal amount of room in battery cages, barely enough space to open up a wing.

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.

Our first briefing that morning had been on the avoidance of cobras: Riddi, a forty - year - old father who lived in one of the longhouses in Bario and had been making some money guiding Western trekkers (about a hundred visited every year), told me that the cobras only attacked if you stepped on them or if they were laying eggs and they felt threatened.

About 280 million laying hens produce some 60 billion eggs each year in the United States.

Over the years Pace Farm have been pioneers in specialty eggs and were the first to bring you Liberty ® Barn Laid eggs, and we've enabled 100 % organic free range Eco Eggs to be widely stocked in supermarkets.

I remember last year, before the Tennessee game, I dreamed that we laid an egg, and the fans were throwing those damned Archie buttons all over the field.

Laying hens have also been selectively bred to produce unnaturally large numbers of eggs - up to 330 per year.

In the first year, adult blacklegged ticks feed and mate on the ears and hide of deer, laying eggs that drop to the forest floor in late spring.

They can live to be 100 years old and only lay eggs once or twice a decade.

«For many years, it was a mystery as to what kind of dinosaur laid these enormous eggs,» says Darla Zelenitsky, from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Females lay no more than 20 eggs per year, and there are not many females.

When five California condors laid eggs in the wild last spring, 27 years after the recovery project began, officials were thrilled.

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.

If the number of eggs hatching at La Escobilla plummets, the number of females that arrive each year to lay should follow suit a few years later.

Modern chickens carry a version of the thyroid - stimulating hormone receptor gene, TSHR, that has been linked to several domesticated chicken characteristics: year - round egg laying, faster egg production at sexual maturity, reduced aggression toward other chickens and less fear of people.

During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

In normal years, females lay their eggs under 1 to 1.5 meters of water in remote mountain lakes and pools.

Curious as to whether the males might benefit from the situation by passing on more of their own genes, Emlen and his colleagues observed the mating and egg - laying habits of the jacanas on the Chagres River in Panama for 6 years.

Animals have been laying eggs for millions of years, after all.

Researchers now plan to focus on identifying the specific genes associated with the mosquito's other unique traits, from its ability to resist dengue fever to its ability to lay eggs that can last for up to a year without water.

Every year, almost half a million female olive ridleys (Lepidochelys olivacea) come to Gahirmatha beach in Orissa and the nearby islands, where they lay more than 50 million eggs.

Females will lay a clutch of eggs up to three times per year depending on the weather.

More than 120 million years ago, while giant dinosaurs crashed through the forests in fearsome combat, a quieter drama unfolded in the Cretaceous underbrush: some lineage of hairy, diminutive creatures stopped laying eggs and gave birth to live young.

Some abandon their eggs as soon as they've laid them, while others dote on their young for years.

These pink cave amphibians can live to be 100 years old but only lay eggs once or twice a decade.

Earlier this year, a now deceased female named Sungai from the London Zoo laid a clutch of 22 eggs, four of which yielded normal male dragons — even though Sungai hadn't had a date in two and a half years.

Females lay their eggs in the fruit and the larvae destroy 15 to 30 per cent of the crop each year as they munch their way to freedom.

They also hold the record for celibacy among animals: All 460 known species of bdelloids consist exclusively of egg - laying females that have essentially been cloning themselves for 100 million years.

Nevertheless, limb measurements of the males on the two remaining experimental islands (the females could not be included because of their propensity to lay an egg a week, swelling their abdomens and ruining leg measurements) showed that during the first six months of the year more longer - limbed A. sagrei survived the introduction of the predator L. carinatus.

The results suggest that the early birds from the Mesozoic (252 to 66 million years» ago) laid eggs that had different shapes to those of modern birds.

Every 2 years, females cross the seven seas, docking on the beaches where they were born, to lay eggs.

What's more, females can lay an egg almost every day, and a single male can sire thousands of offspring each year.