She's laid infertile eggs in the past and I want to avoid it happening this time, as it's not good for her body.
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So the eggs were flown 1, 800 miles to Kansas City, where another pair of red-crowned cranes was trying to incubate two infertile eggs.
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"Myrmecia " is one of the very few genera where the workers lay trophic eggs, or infertile eggs laid as food for viable offspring.
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Certain species of coccinellids are thought to lay extra infertile eggs with the fertile eggs, apparently to provide a backup food source for the larvae when they hatch.
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And the reason you don't take the eggs away is that birds will lay more eggs to replace missing eggs, but will waste time ( several weeks ) brooding infertile eggs.
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Also applied to the introduction of large numbers of sterilized males of the " pest species ", whose matings result in the laying of infertile eggs ( Allaby 1998 ) . 2.
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The average number of young found in nests is 2.5, and the average number that fledge is about 1.5, due to the occasional production of infertile eggs and various natural losses of nestlings.
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Birds and other animals, including reptiles and fish, can become " egg bound " if they do not pass eggs after ovulation; this may be a reason for the laying of infertile eggs .-- Ginkgo100 04 : 02, 26 April 2006 ( UTC)
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Dr . Jacques Cohen, an embryologist of the Institute, discovered a technique called the cytoplasmic transfer in 1996 in which the contents of a fertile egg from a donor are injected into the infertile egg of the patient who has undergone unsuccessful attempts of IVF along with the sperm.
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:: : I'd use parens : " Hens make eggs ( without getting any sex ) that cannot become chicks . " Or, if we don't want such a clumsy sentence : " Unmated hens lay infertile eggs . " talk ) 01 : 01, 7 November 2012 ( UTC)