Sentences with phrase «laying eggs for»

Though it's not certain, Indian history suggests that people were raising chickens as early as 3200 B.C.. There're records of hens laying eggs for the Egyptians and Chinese in 1400 B.C..

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

While in captive environments, females laid eggs for up to six months and brooded for up to eight months.

Leatherback turtles have been coming ashore to lay their eggs for generations.

A female ambrosia beetle mates once, founds a colony in tunnels she builds in a eucalyptus tree, and then lays eggs for 30 to 40 years.

I also found in researching, that lice don't lay eggs for at least ten days after they hatch, so as long as some form of effective natural lice remedy is used every 6 - 7 days for a few life cycles, nitpicking hair is not necessary.

Burrowing female Sarcoptes mites tunnel under your dog's skin where they lay eggs for up to three weeks.

By the third or fourth day, the female flea can produce 40 to 50 eggs per day (two times its body weight) and will continue to lay eggs for up to one hundred days.

Refi out your HML and let it honk and lay eggs for a few years!

Not exact matches

There's an argument to be made that going so far so fast could kill the goose that lays the golden egg, destroying jobs at a time when more are desperately needed, particularly for the young.

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.

In my opinion, searching for a gold egg - laying goose is a fool's game.

In the 1980s, the rules for healthy eating were laid down: cut out fats, eggs and salt.

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

Too many eagles have become domesticated chickens, cooped up for life laying eggs just for eating and not for growth.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

an egg laying mammal with a bill and a beavers tail, second eyelids for swimming and a poisonious barb on the males right rear foot... now science tested and found it is a kin to the mole; what does your god say it is?

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

The common chook was designed with the ability to lay eggs which it incubates by sitting on it for many weeks.

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

Evolution occurs when the offspring differ from the parent's genetics, so a bird that was almost a chicken laid an egg with the genes for the «first» chicken.

Bakers tip: parchment paper to lay the ravioli out on, a pastry brush for the egg wash and make sure your pasta is very thin (whether it is store - bought or homemade) for a very tender ravioli.

fill the egg rolls by laying a wrapper out flat and filling with 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture OR 1 1/2 teaspoons for mini egg rolls

We breed Muscovy ducks for eggs and meat and have laying hens in the garden.

The ones they sell at work are over $ 3.00 and I can make one for about $ 1.10, since I have my own egg - laying chickens.

For those who have tasted eggs freshly laid, the flavor is superior but difficult to describe.

, but what if you don't want to eat eggs, or can't for health reasons, or your feathered friends have taken a much - needed break from laying?

My flour must have been extra dry, or perhaps the egg was not large enough, because the batter was rather stiff, but I used the batter as it was for the base, pressed into the pan by hand, laid out the fruit on top of that, and added a sprinkle of mace over the fruit.

The girls that lay our Non-GMO eggs are free to roam their open pastures from morning till night, feasting on fresh grass and foraging for whatever nature provides.

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.

Weekday mornings are hectic, and despite my best - laid plans, I'm not getting up 30 minutes early to make eggs for the troops.

«Pare off some of the crust of the manchet - bread, and grate off half as much of the rest as there is of the root, which must also be grated: then take half a pint of fresh cream or new milk, half a pound of fresh butter, six new laid eggs (taking out three of the whites) mash and mingle them well with the cream and butter: then put in the grated bread and carrot with near half a pound of sugar, and a little salt, some grated nutmeg and beaten spice; and pour all into a convenient dish or pan, butter'd, to keep the ingredients from sticking and burning; set it in a quick oven for about an hour, and so have you a composition for any root - pudding.»

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.

Hilton Worldwide announced today that it will begin to eliminate the use of cages for egg - laying chickens and gestation crates for breeding pigs in its global food supply chain.

In addition to providing secluded nesting boxes for laying eggs.

But instead of reassessing their practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.

Since 2000, farmer / owner Michael Yezzi and has raised rare, heritage breed pigs, as well as meat chickens and laying hens for eggs.

In big news for laying hens, as part of the Open Wing Alliance, Animals Australia helps convince General Mills — one of the world's largest food companies — to go cage - egg - free by 2025!

All egg systems are faced with a universal «problem» when it comes to the hatching of chicks raised for egg laying.

Jon and Anna have a clear vision and plan for their farm, and much of it is laid out on their GoFundMe page, including chicken egg production and chile pepper cultivation.

Lay bread in dish and let soak in the egg mixture for about 30 seconds each side.

(and, honestly, my eyes are crap so I cheated really — I know what plants and which bits they use for egg - laying, the time of day it usually happens, and what shape an egg - laying butterly usually makes.)

It would be shocking if the Wolverines laid the same kind of bowl egg that the Rebels did to close 2014 (for one of many reasons, Florida isn't 2014 TCU), and the defense could get better simply by getting some rest.

After Dan Graziano's report that team owner Dan Snyder's relationship with Robert Griffin III was toxic to the point where Shanahan considered quitting as the Redskins were preparing for a playoff game, the Redskins came out and laid an egg to the fullest extent in front of one of the sparsest crowds you'll ever see at an NFL game.

Credit the Jayhawks for being the rare powerhouse not to lay an egg in this tournament so far.

He went 15 - for - 16 for 208 yards, three touchdowns, and two sacks, and even with a total egg - laying against Purdue last week, he's completed 65 percent of his passes for 832 yards, eight scores, and two picks since a 16 - for - 36 dud against Notre Dame.

And unlike Rutgers, Illinois» problems couldn't be explained by the propensity for egg - laying in big games.

It takes a hen a week to 10 days to lay the first egg, and it takes 18 days for the egg to hatch.