PEEP
What is the name of a chick when it is in its shell?
Embryo!
What is the name of a full grown female chick?
A hen!
What is the name of a group of chickens?
A flock!
What is the name of a full grown male chick?
A rooster!
What does it mean for an egg to "not produce?"
This means that the egg did not have the correct environment to be able to be born!
How do chicks keep their feathers clean?
They take a dust bath!
The eggs need to be rotated every four hours and it needs to be very warm and moist!
True or False- Male chickens lay eggs?
False, only female chickens do!
What does it mean for a mother hen to be broody?
What is it called to shine a flashlight into an egg to see its development?
This is called candling!
A nesting box!
True or False- The eggs at a grocery store could be chicks if you put them in an incubator?
False, because they are not fertilized
What is a fertilized egg?
What is the body part called that a chick develops inside of the egg that helps it hatch?
This is called an egg tooth!
True or False- Chicks breathe with their mouths when they are inside of the egg?
False, they absorb oxygen through the cracks in their shell!
True, chicks can hear the outside world after day 5 of their development!
When do chicks breathe through their air shell inside of their egg?
Chicks only breathe through their air sac right before they are ready to hatch! This big breath of air helps give them the strength to hatch!
True or False- Chicks take 20 days to develop.
False, chicks take 21 days to develop!
True- Chicks and babies both absorb oxygen into their bodies. Chicks absorb the air through their eggshells and human babies absorb the oxygen through their mothers veins!
What do chicks eat while they are inside of their egg?
Chicks eat the yolk while they are inside of their egg!
True or False- All chickens have the same number of toes.
False- Some breeds of chickens have four toes on each foot and some have five!
True or False- Chickens can see more colors than humans.
True- Chickens can see more colors than humans, so that they can find bugs, seeds and berries in the grass!
How many sounds can a chicken make to communicate?
True or False- A chicken's heart beats twice as fast as a human's heart.
False- A chicken's heart beats three times as fast as a human's heart!