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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks.  I guess I should be embaressed to say that I knew very little of 
those facts.  I'll probably forget, again.  But, right now, it is good to 
know something about what I eat , practically every am .........bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Eggs
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 8:32 AM
> How is an egg made?
> Firstly the hen releases a yolk from her ovary. The
> infundibulum (also  
> known as the funnel), holds the yolk for about 15 minutes
> (this is  
> where fertilisation would take place if there was a
> rooster), before  
> it passes to the magnum, where after three hours the white
> is formed.  
> As the white (albumen) is deposited around the yolk it
> rotates,  
> twisting the albuminous fibres to form the chalazae.
> 
> The next site of activity is the isthmus where the two
> shell membranes  
> are formed in about 1¼ hours. The egg has now reached it
> full size and  
> shape. It passes along to the uterus to acquire, after 19
> hours, its  
> shell, shell colour and bloom, or protective coating. After
> a few  
> minutes' pause in the vagina, the uterus inverts the
> cloaca (the  
> junction of the digestive, urinary and reproductive
> systems) and the  
> vent and the egg is laid.
> 
>    * A hen requires between 24 and 26 hours to produce an
> egg.
>    * Thirty minutes after laying an egg she starts all over
> again.
>    * Most female animals have two functioning ovaries, but
> hens only  
> use one, their left. The right ovary stays dormant.
>    * A female hen is born with thousands of tiny ova which
> will one  
> day become egg yolks.
>    * A double-yolker egg is the result of two yolks being
> released at  
> the same time.
>    * During formation, the egg moves through the oviduct
> small end  
> first.
>    * Just before laying, it is rotated and laid large end
> first.
>    * Laying an egg is known as oviposition.
>    * The size of the eggs increase as a hen gets older.
> 
> http://www.broadlandeggs.co.uk/html/how_an_egg_is_made.html
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