chicken list

for 8th grade

Rooster

An adult male chicken

Hen

An adult female chicken

Chick

An 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 oof placing fertile chicken eggs into an incubator or under a broody hen to begin the 21-day incubation process

Incubator

An device or apparatus desiged to maintain optimal environmental conditions for nurturing living organisms

Dipping

Placing a newly hatched chick’s beack in water to inshore it hydrates and learns to find the water source

Brooder

A heated enclosure, structure, or 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 egg shell in a dark room to observe its interior, historically done with a candle

Germinal Disk

A small, whitish spot on the surface of an egg yolk containing the female genetic material.

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 the clear, viscous liquid 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 a chicken egg

Shell

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