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Chicken
Keeping Chickens as Pets
Chicken Posters and Prints!
Chicken Shirts!
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Chicken
Quick Fact |
| Female Chickens are called Hens |
| Male Chickens are called Roosters |
| Hens lay eggs, roosters do not. When a hen lays an egg
it will only hatch into a chick if a rooster has fertilized the egg by mating
with the hen. The hen and the rooster must mate before the egg is laid in order
for the egg to be fertilized. If a rooster does not mate with the hen the egg will not be
fertilized. Hens will lay eggs even if a rooster is not present. If you crack a
raw egg and there is a red dot inside the egg, that means the egg was
fertilized. Most eggs you buy in the store are not fertilized because there was
no rooster present. |
| A hen and a rooster do not have to mate daily for all
eggs to be fertilized. If a rooster is removed from the presents of a hen the
eggs may still be fertilized for about a week or so. |
| A free range chicken is a chicken who is not caged and
has a yard to run around in. Eggs laid by free range hens are lower in
cholesterol than commercial chickens which are caged in small cages. The cages
are too small for the chickens to get the proper exercise. |
| Hens actually make great pets, so long as the zoning
laws in your area allow you to keep chickens. |
| Chickens can be trained to come to you by picking a
call, and offering them a treat when they come. For example, if I go out to our
chickens and yell , "Chiccckkkennnns!!!!" they all come running for the white
millet treat I have for them. Some of the more socialized chickens will even eat
out of your hand. |
| Chickens love to eat white millet as a treat. |
| If a hen does not get enough calcium in their diet,
the eggs they lay will have soft shells. Most feed their chickens a diet high in
oyster shell so they obtain a high amount of calcium. |
| Believe it or not, chickens love to eat their own
eggs. They will not eat an egg that is not already cracked, but toss an egg onto
the ground and watch them come running to eat the white and yoke. They just love
it! |
| Frizzled Bantams chickens are rare bantam with curly feathers. If two
frizzles mate and four eggs are laid, often only one chick will be frizzled. |
| Roosters make a Cockadoodle
Doo Sound (Clip of a Banty Rooster surrounded by Road Island Red, Barred
Rock (Black) and New Hampshire Red Hens) |
| The study of eggs is called oology |
| Chicken Eggs Hatch After About 21 Days of Incubation |
Road Island Red Hen
Road Island Red Hens
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"These are my 2 chickens
named Turkey and Goose. My
cat. Cloey, was fascinated by them when they were baby chicks.
Now they are full grown and she is scared to death of them. They
just laid their first set of eggs today, so I am a proud
chicken-momma."
Cloey the cat
smelling a baby Chick
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Frank a Banty Rooster
Elvis a Banty Rooster
Road Island Red Hens with Banty Roosters
Elvis and Frank - Banty Roosters
Road Island Hen Laying an Egg
Road Island Red hens lay brown eggs
Roy the Rooster
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