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Solutions to stop chicken from laying immature eggs

Healthy mature eggs which any healthy layers should lay. Photo: Courtesy.

For an egg to be fertilized or contain both male and female genetic material that is usually necessary to create an embryo a hen must mate with a rooster. 

If an egg does not contain the roosters’ genetic material it becomes unfertilized or immature.

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