CHICKEN

Rooster

an adult male chicken

Hen

an adult female chicken

Chick

baby chicken

Yolk

is the yellow nutrient rich inner mass of a bird or reptile egg that nourishes the developing embryo containing proteins lecithin and cholesterol

Embryo

an embryo is an organism in the earliest foundational stage of development characterized by rapid cell division and differentiation following fertilization

Humidity

amount of water vapor present in the air

Setting eggs

the act of placing fertile eggs into an incubator or under a broody hen begin the 21 day incubation process

Incubator

a device or apparatus designed to maintain optimal environmental conditions for nurturing living organisms

Dipping

placing a newly hatched chick’s beak into water to ensure it hydrates and learns to find the water source

Brooder

a heated enclosure structure apparatus used to raise young chicks poultry or other animals by providing necessary warmth typically during their first few weeks of life when they cannot regulate their own body temperature

Candling

the process of shining a bright light source behind an eggshell in a dark room to observe its interior historical done with a candle

Germinal disc

a small whitish spot on the surface of an egg yolk containing the female genetic material. It is the site of fertilization where cell division begins to develop an embryo. In fertile eggs it becomes a ring shaped blastoderm while in infertile eggs it remains a small solid white dot

Chalaza

a twisted rope like strand of protein in a chicken egg that suspends the yolk in the center of the egg white

Egg white

is clear viscous liquid ( primary 90% water and 10% proteins) surrounding the yolk inside the chicken egg

Air cell

a small stationary pocket of air located between the inner and outer membranes at the blunt end of chicken egg

Shell

the hard porous outermost layer of an egg composed primarily of over 90% calcium carbonate