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From Emily Shakespeare-Thomas
The 'gizzard' which is part of the stomach, contains tiny stones to help grind up food.
From Isabel Davies
A chicken is a living relation of the T-Rex dinosaur!! Rooooar.
From Miss Somerville
Chickens have tongues!
From Mrs Davies
The colour of a chickens ear-lobes is the same colour as their eggs!
From Isobel
A chickens heart pumps 300 beats a minute!
From Piper
It takes 21 days for a chick to hatch out of an egg.
From Thomas
Hens sit on their eggs to warm them and turn them over using their beaks and feet.
From Billy
Hens start to lay eggs when they are 5 months old and can lay for up to 5 years!
From Lily
Hens lay eggs on most days!
From Rosie and Maddy
Chicks follow their mother and copy what she does; pecking grains or food pellets from the ground.
From Rhys
A female chicken is called a hen, a male chicken is called a cockerel and a baby is called a chick.
Farmers shut chickens up at night to try to keep them safe from foxes.
There are more chickens on earth than humans. I did not know that! Did you know?
ReplyDeleteGreat fact! keep them coming....
DeleteDid YOU know their are over 3BILLION chickens in China alone??
Deletethat is an amazing fact
DeleteI knew that
DeleteOooo Cool facts. I have one for you... The greatest number of yolks ever found in a single chicken egg was nine! xx
ReplyDeleteI love chickens
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of animals.
ReplyDeleteThe golden chicken without the fluffy hair sleeps on you (cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck )
ReplyDeleteGrace-chickens are 1 of the most popular animals on earth please reply montpiler is the best school ever cluck cluck exclaimed the chicken
ReplyDeleteChickens are smart because when its night they know when to go into there hut.
ReplyDeleteTo see if your egg is good or bad, you can put it in a dark room or box and put a torch behind it,and if it has big, blotchy dots it is bad, but if it has small dots it is a good egg. Amber Southall
ReplyDeleteGreat fact amber
DeleteNiamh Hutchinson
To check if the eggs are fresh you get a clear bowl full of water and put the egg into it and if it sinks it is fresh, if it floats it is not fresh.
ReplyDeleteby Niamh Hutchinson 4p
cool fact niamh
DeleteCockerels can be heard from a mile away! by Roan Williams
ReplyDeletecool fact I did not even no that by bailey
DeleteIf a chicken wont a chick it means its broody. Bailey
ReplyDeletegreat fact bailey.
DeleteNiamh hutchinson
thanks bailey
Deletevery good
Deletechickens like to lay eggs in quietness.
ReplyDeleteby Niamh Hutchinson 4p
hi and cool
Deletechickens that are 14 weeks old can be very big!
ReplyDeleteBy Roan Williams
I!!!! LOVE!!!! CHICKENS!!!!
ReplyDeleteSO!!!! DO!!!! I!!!! from Roan
Deleteour first eggs are cool very cool lenni smith
ReplyDeletechickens grow fast in a couple weeks WOW.
ReplyDeleteCasey-Louise Gee
after they are 22 weeks old ,the chickens are adults and can mate.
ReplyDeleteNiamh Hutchinson
does chickens spread chicken pox?by John
ReplyDeleteThat's a great question John! I had to do a bit of research to answer it.
DeleteNo, chickens do not spread chicken pox but the spots you get look a bit like a chicken has pecked you or a bit like chick peas. The word chicken also sounds a bit like an old fashioned word for an itch. These are all suggestions why it is called Chicken Pox!
how long has chickens been around for?by john
ReplyDeleteThey've been around for thousands of years and are the nearest living relative of the T-rex dinosaur !
DeleteHow many feathers do they have? by John
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the breed John, some have hundreds and some have thousands!
DeleteHow many eggs do they make a year? by John
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the breed and age of the chicken but about 300 eggs in their first year of laying and 200 in the next.
DeleteChickens lay a amount like in there first year they lay 300 but 200 in the next year!
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