Sentences with phrase «laying eggs producing»

If they are left for prolonged periods they will end up laying eggs producing even more.

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

Locally Laid now partners with other mid-level farmers to produce eggs to our brand standards.

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

Cheap soy protein allows chickens to grow the fastest, and produce the maximum amount of eggs during their peak laying cycles.

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

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

They also leveraged this advance to produce an entertaining animated film for lay audiences that conveys the beauty and wonder of egg fertilization entitled, «The Beginning,» which was published along with the paper.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

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.

As the eggs hatch, she will try to determine the effect of their parents» synchronized singing — whether truly harmonious matings produce unexpected benefits, such as offspring that have a longer life span or that lay an increased number of eggs.

Additionally, unlike other octopus species in which females tend to die after producing a single clutch of eggs, female larger Pacific striped octopuses can lay many clutches of eggs continuously over the course of their adult lives.

Dicephalus is common in reptiles and particularly in British grass snakes, who lay their eggs inside compost heaps where decomposing matter produces heat.

All the birds in cages that produce lots of eggs — regardless of which individuals are doing the egg - laying — get to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next generation.

Myth 2: Bedbugs reproduce quickly Compared with other insects, bedbugs are slow to reproduce: Each adult female produces about one egg per day; a common housefly lays 500 eggs over three to four days.

Normally, the honeybee is no exception to this rule: the female queen bee produces new offspring by laying eggs that have been fertilised by sperm from male drones.

«For example, we noted that males that had been bred for increased same - sex mounting behavior were less discriminating when given a choice between courting a male or a female in later tests, while their sisters laid more eggs and produced more offspring than before», says David Berger, Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University and one of the researchers behind the study.

Females usually lay only two eggs, but in 1979, Merton found that if it loses a clutch, it will try again, so the birds have the potential to produce many more offspring than they actually do.

The scientists removed the first - laid clutches to encourage females to produce more eggs, but this meant that roughly half the young had to be reared by humans.

The iconic, egg - laying, venom producing, duck - billed platypus first had its genome sequenced in 2008, revealing its unique genetic makeup and its divergence from the rest of the mammals around 160 million years ago.

«Understanding how mineral nanostructure contributes to shell strength will allow for selection of genetic traits in laying hens to produce consistently stronger eggs for enhanced food safety.»

Once the mating took place, researchers noticed something else: Instead of dropping a single brood of eggs in their lifetimes — which is thought to be common practice for octopuses — the females would continue to mate and lay eggs even as they produced hatchlings.

«Because flies need a lot of protein to produce eggs, our idea is that females fight to get more protein — and those that get more protein are able to produce more eggs, or they are able to get better spots to lay their eggs.

Although microorganisms also produce volatile metabolites that attract gravid females to infusions, these odorants do not induce egg - laying.

FUN FACT: Free - Range hens are least likely to produce contaminated eggs as their laying environment is the healthiest.

Wild chickens naturally produce only about 15 eggs a year, but farmers have bred domesticated chickens to lay up to 200 or 300 eggs per annum.

I control our poultry venture that produces quail eggs and has improved on meat and egg laying village poultry varieties and has designed local incubators so as to improve access to proteins in a region where resilience to diseases is vital.

An effective queen will lay whatever the hive requires; with fertilized eggs producing female offspring and unfertilized ones producing drones.

Heartworms don't lay eggs like other worms... they produce live baby worms called microfilariae.

The average chicken in the wild will yield 100 eggs annually, a factory farm has not only been selectively bred to produce up to 250 eggs a year but is routinely shocked into «force molting» a process where the chickens are starved for weeks on end to onset another laying cycle.

Female fleas start producing eggs within 24 to 48 hours after taking their first blood meal and can lay up to 40 or 50 eggs per day.

Female fleas start producing eggs 24 to 48 hours after taking their first blood meal and can lay up to 50 eggs per day.

Flea eggs are very tiny so are difficult to spot, one female can lay 20 eggs at a time and over a life time can produce thousands of eggs.

One single deer can produce 500,000 tick larvae a year.2, 3 And since a tick can lay thousands of eggs at a time4, you can see how the tick population can grow pretty fast.

Female fleas produce 40 to 50 eggs a day and they usually lay their eggs right in your dog's hair.

Nutrition Hens: in the egg - laying industry have been bred to produce an unnatural quantity of eggs, leaching from their bodies more calcium than in other breeds of chickens.

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.

This is because there are several generations of fleas that are trying to complete their natural life cycle, including flea eggs, which are the start of the life cycle, and mature fleas, which reproduce to lay eggs that eventually produce more fleas.

Since hens lay large numbers of eggs generally for no more than 2 - 3 years, you can also adopt a retired hen (that may still produce a few eggs per week) from a rescue or sanctuary.

If that dose is skipped, the eggs laid by the adult roundworms will hatch, produce more eggs and continue the cycle.

Female fleas start producing eggs within 24 to 48 hours after taking their first blood meal and can lay up to 40 to 50 eggs per day.

Since the males don't produce any eggs and the females lay her unfertilized eggs without the need for a male, eggs are rarely fertilized when they get to the supermarkets,» Wils tells the Telegraph.

The adult moths can lay 1.5 million eggs, resulting in a new generation of worms that could produce 250 new pavilions.