Chicken terms

Terms that chickens do because they can and they don't know why so chicken thy and that made you laugh so i cut a chicken in half you know that must be funny so I turned a chicken into a bunny so now it is time to go so I put a chicken on a pogo you know this is a bar so I turned a chicken into a car then it got stuck in some tar and that gave the car a scar though you know it hurt your toe the chicken saw a doe in the snow with a a no-se because the hose had to propose and idea to the court that you need get deport-ed and no you need to stop and now I am at the top.

Rooster:

adult male chicken

Hen:

an adult female chicken

Chick:

a baby chicken

Yolk:

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

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:

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

Incubator:

a device or apparatus designed to maintain optimal environment conditions temp humidity and oxygen 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 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 can not regulate their own body temp.

Candling:

the process of shining a bright light source behind the eggshell 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 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

Egg white:

is the clear viscous liquid 90 percent water and 10 percent proteins surrounding the yolk inside the chicken egg

Air cell:

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

Shell:

the hard purpose outermost layer of the egg composed primarily of over 90% calcium carbonate.