# How long does it take a chicken to push out an egg?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276 "2017-09-01T22:45:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276/1 "2017-09-01T22:45:58Z")

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Hello Everyone,

Or hen Kays her first egg today! Just wondering how much of a process is it for her to squeeze that puppy out. Is it a quick push our a long involved painful process?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276/2 "2017-09-01T22:50:50Z")

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[This one took less than two minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iil_YNHO4EY)

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276/3 "2017-09-01T23:02:31Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> [This one took less than two minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iil_YNHO4EY)

And it took me only 45 seconds to realize I really didn’t want to watch that. I tried. But I’m just gonna go on pretending my hens blink those eggs into existence every morning, kinda like a feathery Jeanie.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276/4 "2017-09-01T23:14:41Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Edith Bunker: I asked Archie if he wanted a tongue sandwich, and he said “I ain’t eating nothin’ that came out of a cow’s mouth.”
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> Gloria: So what did you give him?
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> Edith: A couple of hard-boiled eggs.

😃

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**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-a-chicken-to-push-out-an-egg/795276/5 "2017-09-01T23:28:20Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> And it took me only 45 seconds to realize I really didn’t want to watch that. I tried. But I’m just gonna go on pretending my hens blink those eggs into existence every morning, kinda like a feathery Jeanie.

But it’s 720p! Such detail!