Sentences with phrase «of eggs laid»

NestWatch is a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive.

I guarantee that there's also a correlation of more than 80 % between the height of a baby kangaroo in Melbourne and the cumulative number of eggs laid by a hen in Oklahoma since early 2009.

Believe it or not, by monitoring the number of eggs laid, scientists are able to better understand how our genes affect brain function.

Compare wingspan, weight, number of eggs laid and...

The researchers looked at correlations between egg shape and traits associated with the species of bird, including nest type and location, clutch size (the number of eggs laid at a time), diet and flight ability.

The main reason for this: urban raccoons, which also snap up 90 % to 100 % of the eggs laid by Jamaica Bay terrapins during breeding season.

The study assessed the potential changes in number of eggs laid in a nest, incubation start date and nest survival for 2050 and 2080.

To find out if global warming might skew the sex ratio of hatchlings, Rory Telemeco and his colleagues at Iowa State University in Ames developed a mathematical model to predict the sex ratio of eggs laid at different temperatures.

As a result of the bird flu in 2015, many facilities were forced to get rid of egg laying hens.

We estimate that a female who mates 2 - 3 times may build 30 - 40 percent of the eggs she lays from proteins the male transfers during copulation.

The timing of egg laying of tits and flycatchers is closer to each other in Oulu (O. Loukola, unpublished observations) than in Turku [30, 31].

Every aspect of the beetle's life is affected by temperature — from the number of eggs it lays, to its ability to disperse, to the rate at which the beetle moves from one life stage to the next (for example, from pupa to adult), to the survival of the beetle during cold periods.

who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

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.

America's golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs,» Buffet commented.

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.

America's golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs.

If it does, the U.S. will still lag far behind Europe in its treatment of farmed animals, but a federal law offering some protections to egg laying hens will be a marker of forward progress.

These features, together with their egg - laying ability, are more like that of a lizard than a mammal.

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.

(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)

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

A number of tribes of Australian Aboriginals believe that the World was created by a great snake shaking and laying an egg during the dreamtime.

Denominations may lay the eggs of colleges; indeed, most of our colleges owe their inception to such denominational zeal.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft - boiled eggs The farmers» trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

The book's description of GIFT is accurate, but to say that the Church's prohibition of artificial insemination doesn't apply in this case because what is inserted into the recipient woman is no longer only sperm but a catheter containing both a retrieved egg and sperm retrieved after intercourse only lays Catholic bioethics open to the charge that it is based on an arbitrary set of boundaries discernible only to the well initiated.

And of course they will lay eggs and we will eat them and die!

Remove the eggs from the water and lay onto a bed of spinach and smoked salmon.

To tell if an egg is «healthy» and the chicken that laid the egg was healthy, the color of the yolk should be bright orange.

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

With each strip of chicken, dip into the egg mixture, paint on dijon mustard, dip into cashew mix and lay on parchment lined cookie sheet.

We have chickens laying an abundance of fresh eggs... what a perfect solution!

Next, you crack a few eggs, lay down some lovely asparagus, a little bit of cheese, and pop it in the oven.

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When I think of spring, I instantly imagine bright green grass, colorful blooming flowers, and an abundance of freshly laid eggs!

Lay down the egg, pop in the corn tortilla, then add a sliver of butter on top of the tortilla.

«Take a gallon of fine flour, and a pint of good new ale barm or yeast, and put it to the flour, with the whites of six new laid eggs well beaten in a dish...»

The majority of the chickens that lay white eggs are white leghorns.

Chickens also have a pecking order, and if a fight breaks out among floor birds, the loser of a chicken fight can undergo an involuntary change of career from laying eggs to becoming someone's dinner.

Some people's feelings about the chickens that lay their eggs are based more on attributing human characteristics to chickens than on sound knowledge of chicken psychology.

Rose Acre Farms has approximately 25 million chickens, 85 percent of which on average lay an egg daily at one of the company's farms in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Missouri, Georgia or North Carolina.

That is why Vande Bunte Eggs, which is part of Konos Inc., is the first company in Michigan converting its 16 barns of nearly 2 million egg - laying hens to new colony - enriched housing.

The majority of Rose Acre Farms» eggs are packed within 24 hours of being laid, which justifies the company's saying, «So fresh, the hens don't miss them!»

At the end of each row of perches is a box with red plastic flaps where the hens lay their eggs, and each hen has a perch on which it can sit.

Battery farms exist across the world, and the majority of egg - laying hens in the US are battery, despite bans in some states.

The HSUS has officially withdrawn a ballot initiative petition on the same subject, which would have also phased out the confinement of egg - laying hens in battery cages.

We also farm organic fruits and vegetables, keep honeybees, and maintain an egg - laying poultry flock on the Rutherford Estate, which is the site of our future state - of - the - art white wine production facility.