chicken terms

rooster

adult make chicken

hen

adult female chicken

chick

bayd chicken

yolk

is the yellow nutrient rich inner mass of a bird or reptile egg that nourishes the developing embrio containing proteins lectition and cholestral

embryo

an embryo is an organism in the earliest foudational stage of develoment characterized by rapid cell division and differention following fetilized atiomn

humidity

amount of water vapor present in the air

setting eggs

the act of placing fetial chicken eggs into an incudator or under a brooding hen to begin the 21day incubation procees

incubator

a device or apparatus design to maintain optimal envirment conditions for nurturing living organisms

dipping

placing a newly hacted egg chick’s beak into water to ensure it hydrates and learns how to find water sources

brooder

a heated encluser structure or apparattus used to rause young chicks poultry or other animals by providing nessacary warmth typically during their first few feeks of life when they cannot regalate their own body temperauter

candling

the procees of shining a bright light source behind an eggshell in a dark room to observe it’s interiare

germinal disc

a small whitish spot on the surface of the egg yolk containing the female genetic material it is the site of fertilization where cell division begins to devolop an embryo in fertile eggs it becomes a ring shape blasterdom while in infertile eggs it remains a small 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 a clear viscous liquid surrounding the yolk inside the chicken egg

air cell

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

shell

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