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Interesting Egg Facts! October 15, 2008

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        DID YOU KNOW?  

 

  • Eggs contain all the needed protein, minerals and vitamins, except Vitamin C. But egg yolks are one of few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D.
  
  • A hen can lay about 250 eggs per year.
 
  • An egg shell has as many as 17,000 pores over its surface.
 
  • There are 150 species of chicken.
 
  • Chicken are descendants of the red jungle fowl (gallus gallus spadiceus) that lives in Asia.
 
  • The chicken is one of the first domestic animals, appearing in China around 1400 BC.

 

Source : http://www.didyouknow.cd/eggs.htm

 

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