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    181 year ago

    Depends a lot on the context. How cold, how long, et cetera… but it’s possible.

    Modern laying hens might lay an egg a day. When they’re clucky (wanting to raise some chicks) they will want to accumulate a week or so worth of eggs. During that time they’re not sitting on the nest, just saving up the eggs. Then when she’s ready she will start incubating them all at once.

    This makes sense because if it takes n days for them to incubate she needs all the chicks to hatch within a day or else she won’t be able to feed the ones that hatched first while she’s still incubating the later ones.

    As an aside, laying hens will just lay eggs with no rooster around, but quails generally don’t - they need a rooster around or they won’t produce. That being the case the majority of quail eggs you buy are fertilised while chicken eggs generally aren’t. IDK if it’s really true but there’s definitely claims that people have bought quail eggs at the supermarket and hatched quails at home.