Tag: Chicken

A fairy egg is an egg that is missing the yolk. If you crack your egg open to find only white, then it’s considered a fairy egg. These cute little eggs are nothing to cause you concern. They are laid more commonly by young hens early in their laying cycle. What causes fairy eggs in […]

cluck. cluck Add to list Share. The sound a chicken makes is a cluck. What sounds do chickens make? Chicken Sounds and What They Mean Buck-buck-buck. Hens sharing laying areas will often make this noise if they want some personal space. A single loud cluck. This is a chicken’s way of signaling that there may […]

Your chickens can lay eggs as often as every 26 hours, so it’s likely your chickens are so noisy in the morning because they are singing their “egg song.” Why do chickens yell in the morning? Chickens are vocal creatures, and if you’re a chicken keeper, you might notice that your flock is particularly noisy […]

yolk – the yellow, inner part of the egg where the embryo will form. The yolk contains the food that will nourish the embryo as it grows. Is the yolk of an egg the chicken? The yolk of the egg is what we call the yellow part. The yolk has a small white spot on […]

The ovum remains in the infundibulum for 15 to 18 minutes, and it is here where fertilization would occur if the hen mated with a rooster. However, eggs sold for human consumption are not fertilized (most egg-laying hens never even have a chance to mate.) Can you eat unfertilized chicken eggs? Nutritionally, says Cobey, fertilized […]

It’s unlikely, but not impossible. Most commercial egg farms have strictly all-female flocks because male chickens aren’t needed for egg production and aren’t suitable for meat either (chickens raised for meat are a different breed). Can a normal egg become a chicken? During their exploration of chicken embryology, youth learn that for a chicken to […]

If you only have quite a small flock, just one roost will be plenty, allowing approximately 25 centimetres per chicken (smaller if you have bantams)-remember, chickens love to cozy up together when they sleep for warmth and protection (more so in the colder months), so don’t be alarmed if they are all huddled together Where […]

The easiest way to pick up a chicken who doesn’t normally allow herself to be picked up is to simply wait until she settles down at night, and pick her up off the roost while she’s sleeping. You’ll want to gently but firmly place your hands around her, holding her wings to her body in […]

Spread a handful of food beside you. Obtain a few treats your chickens may like, such as cracked corn, or mealworms, and shake it next to where you are sitting. Your chickens will likely by encouraged to walk over and start scratching the dirt beside you, forming a trust bond. How do you get chickens […]

Chickens naturally want to “come home to roost,” although they may need to be taught where home is. Here’s how to train your chickens to go into their coop at night. Why do my chickens not go in the coop at night? If some or all of your flock of chickens is suddenly refusing to […]

Chickens typically wake up with the sun’s rise, which can range between 4 and 7 am, depending on the season and your location. As soon as hens wake up, they begin their day alternating between laying eggs and eating breakfast. What is this? Chickens generally wake up very early in the morning. At what time […]

So well known that it’s been incorporated into everyday speech, rare as hen’s teeth, the saying goes. But facts have a way of shifting in science. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have found a mutant strain of chicken that does appear to have teeth. Is there a bird with teeth? Birds aren’t the only […]

The discovery that RNA possesses catalytic ability provides a potential solution: a single macromolecule could have originally carried out both replication and catalysis. RNA – which constitutes the genome of RNA viruses, and catalyzes peptide synthesis on the ribosome – could have been both the chicken and the egg! Is chicken and egg problem solved? […]

One way to simplify (though not enough to fully solve) a two-sided chicken-and-egg problem is to reduce it to a one-sided chicken-and-egg problem, by focusing on users that can act as both buyers and sellers. Why is there a chicken-and-egg type problem in the platform marketplace? At a minimum it needs two, its consumers and […]

This age-old circular reasoning revolves around the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. So which came first? Philosophical writings from Plutarch, Aristotle, and Macrobius are replete with evidence of their failed attempts to establish a cause and effect. What is an example of a circular argument? […]

According to Genesis, God created animals first, so the chicken came first. More importantly, God stands as the initial cause for all things. This is called the first-cause argument. How do I prove the chicken came first? Back to our original question: with amniotic eggs showing up roughly 340 million or so years ago, and […]

A common problem used to be that chicken feces on the outside of a shell would contaminate the egg once the egg was cracked. But now, according to the CDC report, Salmonella illnesses from factory farm egg shells are less frequent, since industry standards for cleaning and inspecting became more rigid in the 1970s. What […]

Also, some chickens may be more sensitive than others to the toxic elements of chocolate. If your chicken does eat chocolate, you will likely start to see concerning signs fairly quickly, usually within 6-12 hours. The early signs of chocolate poisoning include diarrhea, increased thirst, and restlessness. What happens if my chicken eats chocolate? They […]

In one experiment, eggs were rubbed with strawberry scent. When the chicks hatched, they preferred strawberry scented shavings and water. Adult chickens respond to scents, too. One researcher discovered that chickens respond with alertness when the feces of a prey animal (in this case, a tiger) was put into their pen. What do chickens find […]

The first mention of our feathery friends (or ‘fowls’ as they’re more generally known in the Bible) comes in verse 20. It says ‘Letfowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Did the chicken come first or the egg according to the Bible? It is stated in the sacred books […]