What are layers and broilers in poultry farm?

Answer: Broilers are chickens both male and female that will be slaughtered for meat at about 5 to 8 month old depending on weight. Layers are hens or PULLETS that will be used to provide eggs until they are about 18 to 24 months old at which time they become stewing hens. OR Answer: Layers are chickens that you are raising in order to lay eggs at approximately 16 weeks of age. Broilers are chickens that you are raising for meat. They are usually hybrids that are made to put on weight fast, and butchered between 9-11 weeks of age. Do hens lay unfertilized eggs? Answer: Most chicken eggs produced for consumption are unfertilized. Eggs found in the grocery stores are typically produced by chickens that never come in contact with a rooster. In backyard flocks, however, there is usually a rooster present with the hens and he ensures that the eggs are fertilized by mating the hens regularly. Eggs from hens who have been mated in the past week are fertilized chicken eggs. They can be eaten or incubated and hatched into chicks. Yes, hens can and do lay unfertilized eggs. In fact, most grocery store eggs come from hens that have not been mated by a rooster and therefore are unfertilized. Yes, a hen that has not mated with a rooster in the past ten days will lay only unfertilized eggs. A hen that has never been with a rooster will only lay unfertilized eggs. A rooster must mate a hen for her to lay eggs, and after she is first mated it will still take about a week for her eggs to be fertilized, as it takes about that long for the rooster's sperm to travel to the hen's ovaries where her eggs are fertilized before the shell covers them and before they are laid. OR Yes, hens often lay unfertilized eggs. In fact, all egg laying chickens that have not been mated by a rooster within the past ten days lay only unfertilized eggs.

Can you consume fertilized hens eggs? Answer: Yes. Most eggs purchased at local farms or in the organic food section of the grocery store are fertilized. It is almost impossible to tell that an egg has been fertilized unless that egg has been incubated. Eggs are collected and refrigerated within hours of being laid and therefore do not start forming the embryo. There is no difference in taste nor in quality between fertilized and unfertilized eggs. There are also some cultures (notably in southeast Asia) who eat partially formed eggs, either duck or chicken, and consider it a delicacy. In the Philippines, this is called balut. OR Answer: a fertilized egg and a non-fertilized egg are the same except a fertilized egg can be hatched so you wont be killing a little chick unless you break the egg while there being hatched

Answer: There is no nutritional difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs.