Facts About Chickens. A female chicken is called a “Hen”

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Facts About Chickens

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Facts About

Chickens

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A female chicken is called a “Hen”

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Hens can lay 1 egg

per day

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Eggs provide protein to our diet

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Eggs purchased at the store will never

hatch

An embryo (baby chick) never even began developing because

it wasn’t fertilized or incubated (Kept at right temperature)

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Eggs come in many colors

…but the color does not affect the nutritional

value

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You can tell what color of egg a hen

will lay by the color of her earlobe

White

LIGHT BROWN

Dark BROWN

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There are many kinds of

chickens…Big…

Small…

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There are many kinds of

chickens…Extra feathers on their head

Or feet…

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There are many kinds of

chickens…Fuzzy ones…

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But they all developed inside

an egg…