Are chicken's self sustaining?

A Battered Mars Bar

Picture me this. A chicken in a hut with no doors no escape. She lays one egg a day, scrambles it mostly, sometimes poaches it and then eats the egg. How long does the chicken survive doing this?

Cee-Jay-Cee

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A Battered Mars Bar

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Picture me this. A chicken in a hut with no doors no escape. She lays one egg a day, scrambles it mostly, sometimes poaches it and then eats the egg. How long does the chicken survive doing this?

Chicken survives into old age after securing a lucrative TV deal to present a cookery show as the only chicken in the world who can scramble eggs.

Turtyturd

I'm eating my breakfast Kate.

eeguy

A laying chicken needs about 300 calories a day to lay one egg 4 out of 5 days.

An egg has about 150 calories.

So you chicken is on a half calorie diet and won't lay after about 1 or 2 days, so it'll die in less than a week.

Del2005

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Picture me this. A chicken in a hut with no doors no escape. She lays one egg a day, scrambles it mostly, sometimes poaches it and then eats the egg. How long does the chicken survive doing this?

She would die of thirst after a short while. Even if she didn't it requires more energy to make an egg than you get from it so only a few days with water.

eeguy

eeguy wrote: »

A laying chicken needs about 300 calories a day to lay one egg 4 out of 5 days.

An egg has about 150 calories.

So you chicken is on a half calorie diet and won't lay after about 1 or 2 days, so it'll die in less than a week.

That's interesting. I didn't realise it took so much energy to produce an egg, it seems a huge requirement for a wee thing like a chicken. Chicken feed must be very calorie dense to provide so many kilojoules.

Fr_Dougal

Candie wrote: »

That's interesting. I didn't realise it took so much energy to produce an egg, it seems a huge requirement for a wee thing like a chicken. Chicken feed must be very calorie dense to provide so many kilojoules.

It's not an eggact science.

Phoebas

Del2005 wrote: »

She would die of thirst after a short while. Even if she didn't it requires more energy to make an egg than you get from it so only a few days with water.

Eh, couldn't she just drink the water she used to poach the egg?

A chicken who could poach an egg would figure that out.

Peregrine

No, she'd need all sorts of nutrients that she can't get from eggs.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Candie wrote: »

That's interesting. I didn't realise it took so much energy to produce an egg, it seems a huge requirement for a wee thing like a chicken. Chicken feed must be very calorie dense to provide so many kilojoules.

It's simpler to just go to the shop and buy them.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Who is fertilising the eggs?

Peregrine

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

Who is fertilising the eggs?

Also a very good point :pac:

me_irl

Well, they are restless!

maudgonner

Chickens don't have opposable thumbs. They're quite resourceful though, so she will find a way to light the stove to make her scrambled/poached egg. But she will knock it over, set fire to her own bedding and the coop will be ablaze within seconds. She will not make it through the first day.

RIP Chicken.


Still, roast chick is lovely, so it's not all bad!

frozenfrozen

Didn't know chickens needed 300 calories a day. How many calories are in a Cadburys creme egg? Would you be able to feed one of those to a chicken.

What else do I need to know about chickens

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

those Creme Eggs They were in the shops before Christmas they were mad stuff what next aaaargghhh aaaaaghhhh help me

riffmongous

Peregrine wrote: »

Also a very good point :pac:

Or is it? A trip to the farming forum might be needed

eeguy

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

Who is fertilising the eggs?

Why do the eggs need to be fertilised?

Zaph

How hypothetical is this question? Are you really the chicken?

pickarooney

eeguy wrote: »

Why do the eggs need to be fertilised?

More protein in a foetus.

9or10

pickarooney wrote: »

More protein in a foetus.

Not if they're eaten straight after being laid.

gramar

Robbed from YLYL thread

whoopsadoodles

eeguy wrote: »

A laying chicken needs about 300 calories a day to lay one egg 4 out of 5 days.

An egg has about 150 calories.

So you chicken is on a half calorie diet and won't lay after about 1 or 2 days, so it'll die in less than a week.

150 calories in an egg? Is it dinosaur eggs you're atein?

eeguy

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

150 calories in an egg? Is it dinosaur eggs you're atein?

It's the eggs wikipedia eat.

Probably American. Full of sugar :rolleyes:

Gavinz

eeguy wrote: »

An egg has about 150 calories.

It does in its hole.