Chicken Dating Profiles
Low-maintenance, reliable, lays consistently, prefers drama-free living.
What is a production layer?
True or false - Darker yolks do not automatically mean organic.
What is true - darker yolks are caused by the food your chicken eats and do not indicate organic or inorganic.
This dramatic chicken announcement is often heard right after a hen lays an egg — basically her victory love song.
What is the egg song?
What’s That Thing?
Clue: This red, fleshy growth on top of a chicken’s head comes in types like single, pea, and V-shaped.
What is a comb?
Are you a heat lamp? Because you make my ___ thrive
What are chicks?
Extra fluffy, dramatic hairstyle, doesn’t love rain.
What is a Polish?
Chickens can recognize up to ______ faces (human and chicken).
What is 100?
Chickens show affection by grooming each other’s feathers in this bonding behavior.
What is allopreening (or preening)?
Double Trouble
Clue: These fleshy lobes hang below the beak and help regulate body temperature.
What are wattles?
You must be a rare breed, because I’ve been ___ for you.
What is searching (or hunting)?
Independent thinker, may escape the yard, strong opinions.
What is a flighty breed (or Leghorn)?
I sit on a nest, but I cannot lay.
What is a rooster?
This rooster behavior — puffing up, circling, and tidbitting — is basically poultry flirting.
What is courtship (or tidbitting)?
Beauty Marks
Clue: This patch of colored skin just behind the eye can indicate egg color genetics in some breeds.
What are earlobes?
(Follow-up fun fact: White earlobes often correlate with white eggs; red with brown.)
Are you broody? Because you’ve been sitting on my ___.
What is heart?
Great mom energy, wants to sit on everything.
What is a silkie?
At what day of development does an embryo's heart begin beating?
What is 3 days?
When a hen insists on sitting on eggs no matter what, she’s described as this.
What is broody? What is the White Sultan?
Feathered Feet
Clue: The lower leg segment between the hock and toes is called this.
What is the shank?
You must be free-range, because you’ve got me ___.
What is roaming/wild?
Dark, mysterious, and lays chocolate-colored eggs.
What is a Marans?
The brown pigment added at the final stage of egg formation is called this tongue-twisting compound.
What is protoporphyrin?
This featherless patch develops on a hen’s underside to help her warm eggs during incubation.
What is a brood patch?
The Power Center
Clue: This muscular part of a chicken’s digestive system grinds food with the help of grit.
What is the gizzard?
Are you a double yolk? Because you’re twice the ___.
What is love (or trouble)?