Egg Parts
This is the yellow center of the egg, that serves as nutrients for the growing embryo.
What is the Yolk?
What is adulthood?
These are the red floppy parts on top of a chickens head or under its beak
What are the wattles and comb?
It takes this many days for chicken eggs to incubate
What is 21 days?
This pocket inside the egg helps the chick breathe.
What is the air cell?
The hard outer edge of the egg, this is what the chick breaks through when it hatches.
What is the shell?
The first whole a chick makes in its shell is called this name.
What is a pip?
Chickens have this many teeth.
What is one or none?
The final three days of incubation have a special name, that name is...
What is Lockdown?
The process of using a light to see how the chicken is growing.
What is candling?
The stretchy layer just inside the shell provides an extra barrier against bacteria or harmful particles.
What is the membrane?
The four stages of a chickens life are these.
What are Egg, hatch, chick, and adult?
Name a part of the chicken's digestive tract that humans dont have
What is Crop or Gizzard?
Chicken eggs have to be rotated a certain number of times a day.
What is 7?
The home our chicks will go into now that they have hatched is called this.
What is a brooder?
This is the part of the egg that changes if it is fertilized. If so it is larger and has a dot in the middle.
What is the germinal disk?
Chicks know how to do many things right away when they are born, this is one thing that someone needs to teach them.
What is drink water?
All of a chickens waste and reproductive products come out of this body part.
What is the Cloaca?
Name the temperature and humidity we keep the incubator at the first 18 days.
What is 99.5 degrees and 50% humidity?
These are signs while candling that our egg is not growing
There are three membranes inside the egg. Name two.
What are the inner membrane, outer membrane and vitelline membrane?
True or false chickens hatch with their feathers.
Chickens need this in their diet to help their digestion in their gizzard
What is grit or sand particles?
Before putting the egg in an incubator you might want to do one of these steps.
Once the chick pips it begins to do this action to get out of its shell.
What is zip?