No, broilers are usually slaughtered before they reach the age to lay eggs.
Sadly, broiler chickens don’t get to reach this age and are slaughtered before reaching puberty at just five or six weeks old. Therefore they do not lay eggs. However, the parent birds of broiler chickens do lay fertilised eggs. These are known as broiler breeders.
Sadly, broiler
chickens don’t get to reach this age and are slaughtered before reaching
puberty at just five or six weeks old. Therefore they do not lay eggs. However, the parent birds of broiler chickens do lay fertilised eggs. These are known as broiler breeders.
Some broiler chickens are kept as parent birds, or broiler breeders, and do lay eggs. Broiler breeders are kept in sheds with a mixed-sex flock to allow for natural mating.
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