Chicken Eggs

• A flock of chickens in an artificially lit coop will lay bigger eggs with stronger shells if timers in that coop create the illusion of a 28-hour day.
• The temperature of a newly laid hen's egg is 105 degrees F.
• You know that air pocket in the big end of an egg? It doesn't form until the egg cools down.
• The egg always emerges large end first.
• If it's a double-yolk egg, it was laid within six weeks of when the hen first started laying eggs.
• Chickens that lay white eggs descend from birds that nested in dark closed places. Those that lay brown eggs descend from birds that nested in light open places.
• You've heard of those Chinese "1,000-year-old eggs"? They're 42 days old.
• 11.2 percent of the hen's egg is shell.
• Those big poultry farms typically gather eggs four times a day.
• Some hens lay eggs shaped like cucumbers.