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Yesterday we visited the 4-H showbarns to see farm animals firsthand. My 6 year old is consumed by the chickens! He even made the connection with Daisy and the Laying Hens. Unfortunately, I did not plan a study on hens and eggs beforehand. A kind soul gave him the only egg laid yesterday and he carried it around waiting for it to hatch! This morning he boldly said "Mom, today we need to learn about chickens. I want to know the difference between the egg we eat and the egg with the chick in it."
My web search leaves me with the Enchanted Learning Chicken Worksheet
whick is not really going to satisfy him. I am not ready to travel the distance on fertilization with him today. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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A quick word might suffice. I always say, if there is a rooster in the henhouse, the egg may hatch. Otherwise, they are eggs to eat.
He may also just need to see a developmental chart of chick growth:
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/course/3443/study/EmbryoDevelopm ent/poultry/sld001.htm (pictures are real) or http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/ (pictures are drawings).
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Kristen......I have been saving this site below forever.......to share with my kids. I have not looked at it myself.
Hi! It’s Tuesday, April 6, 2004 and time for Science at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
4-H Virtual Farm: Virtual Hatch Project
http://tinyurl.com/23zm4
At this website, 4-H offers the opportunity to learn about embryology by
watching virtual embryonic development and incubation of a chicken egg. When
you get to the site, you will see a menu that includes information about
chickens and roosters, fertilization of eggs, the parts of an egg, how
chickens incubate eggs naturally, how farmers incubate eggs in hatcheries,
the science of incubation, and embryo development. When you click on a menu
item, a new page opens with illustrations, information, photographs, and
even movies that allow you to see embryo development inside a chicken egg.
You can even virtually “candle” an egg to determine the best egg for
incubation. When you are through learning all about the embryology of
chicken eggs – you can see a virtual chicken egg hatch by going to:
http://tinyurl.com/yt568. Wait a few minutes for the program to download and
then follow the directions to watch the chicken emerge from the egg. Very
eggs-citing!
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Thank you Ladies. These are great sites.
So far, none of my brief and basic explanations are satisfying him. The bottom line is there is no way to get around the fertilization issue with chickens- or anything else for that matter. My sons determination and need to understand everything in a scientific manner is going to make this difficult :)
When I briefly tried to say that there had to be a Rooster in the hen house for the egg to result in a chick, he had one of those how do you come up with this stuff looks on his face. He said "Mom, there are Roosters in every hen house. We are not getting answers here."
Maybe the pictures will at least stall the process.
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krgammel wrote:
When I briefly tried to say that there had to be a Rooster in the hen house for the egg to result in a chick, he had one of those how do you come up with this stuff looks on his face. He said "Mom, there are Roosters in every hen house. We are not getting answers here."
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 When I laughed out loud, my 6 yos who is sitting next to me demanded to know what was so funny.
With the egg thing, I've always just told them that they become eating eggs when people pluck them from the hens before they get a chance to become chickens...
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Did you know that when a hen lays eggs she does not start sitting on them until she has a full clutch? She will usually lay these over the course of a week then stop laying and start setting -which by the way is why egg farmers have bred the desire to become broody out of modern hens --no eggs-no income.
Maybe you could explain that not only does there need to be a rooster but she must sit on the eggs to incubate.
And we do not have roosters in our hen house. The roosters tend to become very protective of their hens and they often times get aggressive with children. The banty roosters that shared the henhouse last fall were very aggressive. We kept a broom or rake at every door. The would come running across the yard and attack. I can personally attest to the fact that they can draw blood through a pair of Carhart overalls. They also like to jump with spurs extended, a little to dangerous for visiting toddlers.
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