Our Living Eggs Experience

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Our Living Eggs Experience
Now that we are a few days old we have time to
tell you all about us!
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Chicken bits and pieces

• Origins
• The Domestic hen (Gallus domesticus) was
  domesticated in prehistoric times
• Used by the Chinese, Romans, Greeks and
  Egyptians.
• They developed pecking orders within their flock,
  roosted in trees, and scratched the jungle floor
  for insects, seeds and young plants for food.

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First we arrived On Monday morning, we arrived
as eleven eggs, along with an incubator and a
brooder box We were all very excited as we were
expecting to hatch on Wednesday.
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So you can see how we develop, a poster was
provided for you to look at A fertile egg will
hatch after 21 days.
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Rules and viewing times were created to help
protect us..

• Viewing times-
• Lab 4-
• Before after school
• The first 15mins of break lunch time
• You can also view us online!
• www.tggs.bham.sch.uk

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The Incubation Eggs that are bought from a
supermarket are infertile and cannot be
hatched. Only fertile eggs (from hens that have
been covered by a rooster) can produce chicks. We
were put in the incubator and a humidity tray was
added, and filled with water. This so our
shells do not become hard, making it difficult
for us to hatch. We also needed the temperature
at approximately 35-38 degrees Celsius. This
keeps us nice and warn as though we were under
our mother hen.
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Pipping On Tuesday afternoon, we started to chirp
inside our shells. Some of us hatched early
Wednesday morning. We used our egg tooth to
break out through the shell.
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HatchingDuring the day on Wednesday, we started
to hatch. It was really egg-citing.
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Hatching

• When hatching we break a lid off the egg (at the
  blunt end) by pushing it out with our beak.
• We have a lump on the top beak called an 'egg
  tooth' to help break the shell.
• The egg tooth falls off soon after hatching.
• It is a very tiring process and can take from 1
  hour to 24 hours to hatch.
• Breaking out of the shell is called 'pipping.'

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Finally we arrived! One by one, they started to
arrive.
We were really worn out when we came out of our
shells, but it didnt take long for us to fluff
up and look cute. So many of you came to see us
in the first few days, we were worn out! We
spend a lot of time sleeping
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The brooder box Once we had dried and our dander
had all fallen away we moved into the brooder
box. The brooder box had some bedding for us to
scratch in. It also had a light for warmth and
some food and water. We were very hungry
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After a few days, we start to get bigger and
feathers start to grow on our wings.

• Sometimes we get taken outside

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After the chicks hatched. We love treats. Look
below for some of our favorites. We cannot be
overfed or else we get tummy aches.
toast
chick feed
little worms
water
scraps
fruit
cress
lettuce
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Some information about how we can be kept as
adults..

• The following slides describe some housing
  systems used to shelter us as adults
• It is always important to keep us healthy and to
  provide us with space, warmth, food and water.

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Garden Housing Systems

• Chickens are housed in a variety of ways
  depending on climate and area available.
• Chicken Coop usually consists of 2 areas, an
  enclosed 'house' for protection from the weather
  and roosting facilities for night-time, and an
  open 'run' to allow sunning and scratching in the
  ground.
• Nesting boxes are usually fitted to the enclosed
  'house.'
• Tractor Pens are movable pens providing both a
  protective house and an outside area. They are
  moved regularly to provide fresh ground for the
  chickens to scratch and graze on.

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Commercial Housing Systems

• Laying CagesTwo to three birds are housed in
  cages for a laying period of 12 to 14 months.
• Droppings fall through the wire floors and are
  cleaned out regularly.
• Continuous feed troughs and automatic waterers
  are fitted to the cages. Eggs roll out through
  the front of the cage and lie in a gutter for
  collection.

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• Deep Litter Floor Accommodation
• Birds are kept in sheds with 'litter' on the
  floor i.e. straw, wood shavings, rice hulls etc.
  The equipment inside the sheds consists of food
  troughs, waterers, nesting boxes and perches.

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• Free Range
• Free Range eggs are produced from hens allowed
  the opportunity to graze and forage on pastures.
• You can now find 'free range' eggs on your
  supermarket shelves next to the commercially
  produced ones.
• However, you will pay a little more for them with
  good reason.

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MEAT PRODUCTION (Broiler)

• Broiler is the name given to birds bred
  specifically for meat production. The Chicken
  Meat industry is commonly known as the Broiler
  Industry.

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Did you know that.....

• ... not all chicks are yellow.
• ... chicks can be heard chirping in their shells
  up to 24 hours before hatching.
• ... chicks do not need feed and water for up to
  48 hours after hatching.
• ... chicks start to grow feathers in the first
  week.
• ... chickens' eyelids close from the bottom up.
• ... brown/black chicks usually come from dark
  shelled eggs.
• ... chicks have an 'egg tooth' on the top of
  their beak to break open the shell.

Chicken and duck chicks
Duck chicks
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Keep watching.
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