Is it true that the eggshell is formed after the egg is laid?

MadSci Network: Agricultural Sciences

Subject: Is it true that the eggshell is formed after the egg is laid?

Date: Mon Aug 24 13:44:30 1998
Posted by Ramiro A. C. Souto
Grade level: grad (science)
School: National Technology Universitiy
City: Capital Federal State/Province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Area of science: Agricultural Sciences
ID: 903984270.Ag

Message:


I would like to know if the eggshell that covers a chicken egg is 
formed after the hen has laid the egg. I was told that when the egg 
is laid there is a semitransparent jelly like membrane that covers 
the egg, and that this membrane then turns into the eggshell and 
that's how farmers can distinguish fecundated eggs from nonfecundated 
eggs.

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