January 23, 2007
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Chickens
I have been thinking about my post from last night about sex education.
Why do chickens lay eggs and mommys don’t?
I have been thinking about my post from last night about sex education.
Why do chickens lay eggs and mommys don’t?
Comments (114)
they do
Mommies nurse and chickens don’t
sure they do
Um. Because chickens are birds, and humans are mammals. Chickens lay eggs. Humans give birth to live babies.
???
they do
Chcikens are not the only thing to lay eggs……..
all girls have girls too.
they are just a differant kidnof egg Dan.
Did you know the egg is the larger pne cell product in all of creation…..
something to think about????
its a cell all by itself……….
thats something to ponder…………
or not?
Mommies have eggs on the inside. Mommies are too busy to sit on them and keep them warm, so God built them in.
Mommies do lay eggs. Some of them are apparently more scrambled than others.
i should say woman release an egg to be fertilized
Sorry im drunk and cant spell right………….
Because it’s a chicken. A fowl. Not given to live birth like us mammal beasts are. haha
We do lay eggs. Or have eggs fertilized by semen… either way, there’s an egg involved.
wth are you talking about?
mommies lay eggs.
duh!
uhuh…
I knew what it was in maybe 4th grade.
I didn’t feel comfortable talking about it until probably 8th grade. I wasn’t really the sex expert when I went to a private Christian school, but I started going to public school, and I learned everything right away.
Unfortunately…
Sorry. I read your other post, and I answered that one.
I don’t really have an answer for this one. I probably wouldn’t go on and explain everything about sex to you to answer the question though. :-/
Chickens lay eggs for humans to eat. Can’t eat human eggs. That’s just wrong, and not filling at all.
Mommies do lay eggs they just remain inside their uterus. Chickens lay theirs so that we can have something to eat for breakfast
Birds and humans aren’t exactly related to eachother..
Because if they did you’d be a chicken.
because your fearless leader who gave the state of the Union would have to stop reading my pet goat if mommies did…
mommies eat chickens, eggs, and babies.
I ovulate sometimes!
because chickens have a hard case around their unborn babies, and humans have a fleshy one. and the human “egg” biologically cannot survive outside of the womb, so it stays inside.
Because mommies keep their eggs inside their uterus until they come out as babies.
because human babies are delivered by storks. duh.
I really don’t know, Dan… how about looking at Wikipedia?
Genetics.
Mommies lay eggs. But since we’re mammals, we don’t need the silly shell — we keep it inside of us till we pop!
Meanwhile, chickens don’t have quite the stoutness of heart required to undergo all that maternity & birthing pains, &c &c. So the Lord gave the chickens the easy way out, and it was good. For the chickens.
because daddy might get confused and try to eat the egg
Mommies are mammals, Dan.
We do lay eggs, they are inside of our body waiting for the fish
Mommies’ eggs hatch inside them instead of outside them.
If a chicken gave birth without benefit of a hard-shell egg….well, then that would really hurt! That beak in the birth canal, those chicken feet – ouch! And if it was breech with those feathers going the wrong direction? Yikes!!!
because mommys are better than chickens
Storks try to make it complicated because they have too much time on their hands.
Our genes do not code for hard outer shells for our fertilized eggs; also, our eggs must be kept at certain temperatures. The fetus in our uterus also depends on the mother for food from the placenta during it’s long period in the womb, and during this time it also allows for the mother to bond with the baby. If we were chickens though, life would be a whole lot more simple.
Because chickens have more patience than humans? After all, they have to sit on those eggs for a looooong time. At least human mothers can move around more.
i was trying to say a egg is one massive cell.
ya know?
oh well.
Because when Chickens lay eggs, they don’t become emotionally angry
Just cuz! My mom always bugs me by saying I was hatched rather than born.
Shakes head . . . Dan, Dan, Dan.
because if you asked “which came first, the mommy or the egg?” then you would sound silly so mommys CAN’T lay eggs…for the sake of sillyness
mommy’s do. they’re eggs have to be fertilized by the man’s seed.
Because humans are grossly inefficient, from a biological stand-point. Baby cows stand up within minutes, walk within an hour. Humans spend 18 years getting babied.
Oh, and God willed it.
I’m sorry you have issues from your childhood that you are still dealing with. We will pray for you.
I could try to give a biologically correct answer here but instead I am going to be an idiot and make a comment that I would never make in person to a girl as I value my life.
The chicken is more intelligent than to carry around its young inside of herself and then give birth to a rather large living creature by way of a tiny canal.
Because chickens are birds, and mommies are mammals. Mammals give birth to live young (except for than dang platypus and echidna). Birds lay eggs.
(the simple answer, of course, would be “Because God said so!”)
…Wow, do we really need to send people back to 8th grade science?
Chickens lay eggs for humans to eat. Can’t eat human eggs. That’s just wrong, and not filling at all.
Posted 1/23/2007 9:38 PM by PSUnited1
“and not filling at all…”
i know it was a joke but, ew.
mommies are mammals, mammals give birth to live children where as non-mammals lay eggs.
b/c as it has already been said. humans are mammals and most mammals ( the monotremes [think platypus] lay eggs) give birth to live offspring. I am kind of glad. It would be boring to sit on an egg for 9 months, but then again, we’d be debating about artificial incubations vs natural incubations.
All because that Eve had to eat that stupid fruit…now we have to suffer birth…Thanks Eve
They do. The egg is just really really small and it doesn’t go anywhere outside of the uterus..
Because our minds develope better inside of someone else.
Magic
Because God made us to develop our young differently, and God knows best.
Humans have eggs, they just don’t lay them.
That would be somewhat awkward if they did.
Mommies do lay eggs. It’s just that by the time it comes out, it’s…. progressed a bit.
Cause that’s how God made us.
they do. just not outside the body.
would you wanna give birth to something with claws and a beak? owie.
cause chickens aren’t build to carry a baby all the way through to the end and mommys are?
diiid you know that chickens just lay eggs. some of them will never become a chicken no matter what. they would have to be fertilized. my veggie friend was telling me about this, and y he could eat eggs.
he said it was kinda like a period for chickens. haha. i’m not sure if he was right though.
but for the eggs that do become chickens? heck if i know
Because God made us differently than chickens.
we do. I think you should brush up before you have any kind of “sex talk”….there is this little thing called GOOGLE
With such technologies as in-vitro-fertilization and stem cell research (both of which are very very ethically questionable), women already ”lay eggs”
I don’t know. Don’t ask such hard questions.
LOL
Isn’t that like comparing apples and oranges?
*bock bock*
My birds mate all the time…no eggs.
I think most mommies lay an egg once a month.
AND IT PISSES THEM OFF
Well we “lay” eggs by passing one out into the fallopian tubes and out of the uterus each month…it’s called ovulation. Geesshh. As for why they don’t mature to a full fledged hard-shelled egg and hatch open?
A) NO woman wants to feel like a moose for 9-months…but could not probably imagine having to SIT on an egg for 9 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B) If we had to hatch an egg, can you imagine the size of the predators that would be searching to live off of them? I’m thinking Flintstones here.
C) It’s proof that the Lord is DEFINITELY a man…….no woman deity would make us suffer the pain of birth; only a man would want to drive us nuts.
Hope that helps.
Because God created it to be that way…and He called it “GOOD!”.
Because they evolved that way.
cuz mommies keep their eggs inside… so the only way they can make hardboiled baby is to go hot tubbing.
It’s science, You can’t explain science… it’s Magic.
Because you touch yourself at night.
Um… because we are mammals and chickens are birds…
Did one of your children ask you this?
Good question. At this point, I would’ve much rather laid an egg and sat on it for 9 months. Then I’d be able to breathe, move and walk!
Probably because our hard-boiled chicken eggs would be a lot grosser to eat, if it looked like what came from a human. But then again, we have no problem with drinking milk from cows, so what do I know.
Chickens do not rationalize. They are driven by instinct. Just imagine what would happen if mommies did lay eggs. Mommy thinking: “Hmm, this egg won’t miss me if I just go out to get a bite to eat……….Boy, am I uncomfortable, I just have to get up and stretch a bit………..Hey, I bet if I just covered this egg with a blanket, and put the light near it, I could go to that party. Bye bye, you be a good egg now, I’ll be back later……….” And that would be the end of the human race. God knew us better than that, and so the fertilized egg (baby) stays inside for 9 months to get a good start.
Because mommies are mammals and chickens are not.
Because moms don’t have enough time to sit on eggs all day like chickens…they have a more involved job than clucking around. lol. But, I guess moms do have eggs…just on the inside, but that’s not any different than the dad having sperm. (ugh, too much Biology, lol)
people are mammals and give birth to live babies. birds need to fly, so they can’t carry the extra weight. they need to lay eggs.
Mommies are mammals.
It’s difficult to lay eggs when you’re wrapped in all those bandages inside a pyramid.
Might have to do with the fact they are different species
wow Dan this is sad…….
first of all……. birds are birds and humans are humans!
Birds and humans aren’t exactly related to eachother..
Posted 1/23/2007 9:40 PM by femaleBASSPLAYER
That’s what I should have said!
a very tricky evolutionary problem:
chickens, like all birds, are descended from the dinosaurs, and are hundreds of millions of years older than our human ancestors. Dinosaur life wasn’t conducive to bringing up baby, generally–make an egg, put egg in the sand–mission accomplished, try not to get eaten. Humans gestate internally for anywhere from 9 months until 18 years when the kid goes to college.
oh, no, wait, I was wrong, God made it that way 5000 years ago. Ooops, sorry.
As a number people have said, they do. . .
always annoys me when people act like humans don’t.
True we don’t lay the eggs and hatch them but. . .
if a periods not an unused unfertilized egg, then what is it? . . .
Oh we lay eggs, just inside the body where its fertilized. Technically I’m sitting on my eggs when I’m a couch potato.
MsDeNile
As I was taking roll this morning, one kid was absent, and his friend pipes up, “It’s because his mom is laying a baby.” hahahaha
8:11 PM – 14 eprops – 7 comments – email it
MsDeNile
As I was taking roll this morning, one kid was absent, and his friend pipes up, “It’s because his mom is laying a baby.” hahahaha
8:11 PM – 14 eprops – 7 comments – email it
Because Mommies are too busy to sit there that long. We have to clean the house, prepare meals, run the other kids around, read stories, please our husbands, run to the dry cleaner, shop for groceries, buy the gifts, go to the post office, clean up vomit, run to the pharmacy and the doctors, take the dog out, go to work, ad infinitum. It’s much easier to carry the eggs around with us and incubate them on the go.
mommies lay little bitty eggs inside. Then we use our body to grow a baby instead of a cold lonely shell outside.
“if a periods not an unused unfertilized egg, then what is it? . . .”
Have you had a sex ed course? Your period is actually a shedding of the lining that was building up with the hope that a fertilized egg would attach to it. If it was just the egg coming out god knows we would have days of bleeding, cramps, and PMS. We wouldn’t even know the egg itself was gone.
Also, giving live birth is not the defining feature of being a mammal. It is because of the ability to nurse the infant from *gasp* your mammaries! As others have said there are mammals who lay eggs.
Now, to answer the question. Different species reproduce in different ways. How cool would it be if we liked ourselves so much, we could take the amoeba approach and just split ourselves in to a perfect copy? XD
That would be a big egg…
Mommies lay eggs every month. Just not fertilized ones.
“Mommies have eggs on the inside. Mommies are too busy to sit on them and keep them warm, so God built them in.
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Haha, I like that answer. I think it’s just one of those defining factors God uses in everything; all animals, plants and humans are uniquely different.
I have no clue.
-KrIsTiN-
Because I said so.
Because humans are mammals… Duh.
because we’re mammals?
Reproduction for different animals is based on what is most cost effective, but everyone uses eggs in one way or another. Birds have a hard, impermeable shell for the embryo because it must, more or less, fend for itself once it’s laid. Everything a baby bird needs is in that egg. For mammals, it’s more effective for us to carry the fetus in a womb and have it depend upon the mother for growth until it is time to be born.
This question makes me giggle.
-Kristin
We do. Just not like you’re thinking.
>_<
Chickens are avians/birds. Birds lay eggs after mating.
Mommies are placental mammals. They give live birth after mating.
Would you like me to expand that or does that answer your question? Because it really doesn’t bother me.
They do; on a much smaller scale, of course. Poor ladies…seems if they were chicken-sized eggs, they’d hate life even more once a month.
they dont? lol, news to me. jk. some people say they really do though, but im not sure
Because God made chickens free of sin, so they don’t have to choose whether or not to go play with Jesus in Heaven after serving Him here for a lifetime.
That is a silly question, everyone knows this!
> ‘Cause we ain’t chickens and they ain’t mammals, strictly speakin’!
Peace