Facts
How many days does it take to hatch a chicken?
21 days
What is the hard, outer part of the egg called?
Shell
What is a baby chicken called?
Chick
What is it called when a chick begins to break through an egg with it's beak?
pipping
What is the 1st step in the chicken life cycle?
An egg is laid.
What is the part of the egg that is the food used for growing the chick?
Yolk sac
What develops on the 1st day of the cycle?
The brain
What hardens on the 6th day in the chicken life cycle?
Beak
What is the special machine/tool that acts like the mother hen?
incubator
This part of the egg is located at the large end of the egg usually and is an empty space that is important for the embryo
air cell
What is the chick called while inside the egg while forming?
embryo
Incubation keeps the egg both ____ and _____.
safe and warm
What type of egg has an embryo inside that is capable of growing into a chick called?
F_______
fertilized
What is the "egg white" called?
Albumen
What are you looking for when you candle an egg?
veins, air cell, growing embryo
What is the part of the beak called used to break through the shell? (It falls off eventually!)
egg tooth
What is the last step in the chicken life cycle?
The chicken hatches
Does egg color determine what color the chick is?
No- egg color depends on the hen's genetics
Which day does the heart start beating?
around day 2
What is it called when you look inside the egg with a bright light?
Candling