Is there like a special egg hole in a chicken? or does it come out of its butt? or the other way?

My roomate was wondering that, got me thinkin too....

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ActiveTuning - Partner & Director Of Sales & Marketing

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here...
The egg laying orifice in birds is known as the cloaca and shares both a reproductive and excretory function (ie the alimentary canal empties into it as well).
Birds, Reptiles and Monotremes (egg-laying mammals) all have cloacae.

Jason - My roomate is here, he just read that. He asks:

So do they have sex, take a crap, and lay eggs from the same hole? And it's called a cloaca?

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ActiveTuning - Partner & Director Of Sales & Marketing

Remembering back to the dark days of first year biology, the answer to your question(s) is "Yes".

So for every time they lay a egg, they have sex?

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--Daniel--
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No Daniel, he's just saying that everything comes out of one hole

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ActiveTuning - Partner & Director Of Sales & Marketing

i have raised some chickens and i must say, it is unpleasent to wash off the eggs after the chickens lay them. and it's really annoying when your collecting them and the hen pecks your hands bloody. (sometimes you just gotta smack em)