Chicken Basics
Hen
Eggs can come in many different___.
Colors
Are there many or few kinds of chickens?
Many
Hens can lay about how many eggs per day?
1 egg
Does the egg shell color affect the nutrition of the egg?
What do all chickens develop inside before they hatch?
What nutritional value do eggs provide our bodies with when we eat them?
Protein
You can tell the color of the egg a hen will lay by the color of her____?
Earlobe
What kind of chicken lays eggs that we eat- male or female?
Female (Hen).
True or False: All eggs at grocery stores can hatch into chicks
False
What keeps an egg warm so a baby chick can grow?
Incubator
True or False: All chicken breeds lay the same colored eggs
False
Why can’t store-bought eggs hatch into chicks?
They weren’t fertilized or incubated.
What do we call a baby chicken growing inside an egg?
An embryo
What do we call a baby chicken after it hatches?
A chick.