chicken vocab

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 developinh emruo containg protens

embryo

and emryo is an organism in the earlist foundational stage of devolpent chartacerrized by rapid cell divison and difffentingon following fertilizetion

humidity

amount of water vapor present in the air

setting eggs

the act of placing fertile chicken eggs into an incubator or under a broody hen tobegin the 21 day incubation procwss`

incubater

a device or apparatus desigend to maintain optimal enviremtn temputer oxrygen humidy

dippung

placing a newly hached chicks beak into water to ensure it hydates and learns to find the water sourceb

ooder

a heater enclosure sturcuter or apparatus used to rais se young chicks poultry or other animals by providing nesecty warmth typically during their first few weels of life when they cannot regulate their own body tempature

candiling

the process of shinning a bright light soucre behind an eggshell in a dfark room to obserce its interitor historically done with a candle

germinal disc

a small whitish spot on the surface of an egg yolk containning the female getice matreial iy is the side of fertilition

chalzaza

a twised rope like starnd of protein in qa chicken egg thats suspends the yolk in the centr of the egg white albulem)

Egg white

is the clear visius liqiud primarlity 90% water an 10% proteing ssurroingding the yiolk inside the chickjen egg

air cell

a small stationaly pockett of air located between theinner and outer membranes at the blunt end of ythe a chcvikebn egg

shell

the hard porous outrermost layer of an egg composed of over 90% clcium carbonate.