Sunday
Activity of the Month:
Do Eggs Bounce?
Materials Needed:
• Hard Boiled Egg
• White Vinegar
• Jar or Large Cup
• Water
January
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1.Soak eggs in white vinegar for 48-72 hours until all of the shell is dissolved.
2.Take the egg from the vinegar and soak it in water overnight.
3.Have students lightly drop the egg on a table from two or three feet.
(Do not drop from higher than three feet)
4. Does the egg bounce?
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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Connecticut poultry
producers raise chickens, ducks, emus, geese,
guinea fowl, pheasants,
poussin, squab, and turkeys for eggs, feathers,
meat, show and sport.
Poultry producers
market their products
to restaurants and at
Farmers’ Markets.
How does the chicken
fit in its shell?
(Eggs-actly)
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How long do
chickens work?
Alektorophobia is
the fear of chickens
(poultry).
Female chickens under
a year old are called
pullets. Female
chickens over a year
old are called hens.
Male chickens less
than one year old
are called cockerels.
Male chickens more
than one year old are
called roosters
The domestic chicken
is believed to be the
direct ancestor of the
Asian Red Junglefowl.
They sleep in trees.
The common chicken
is the closet living
relative to
Tyrannosaurus rex.
How do you
cook an egg on a
summer’s day?
(Around the cluck)
(Sunny side up)
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What do you get
when a chicken lays an
egg on top of a barn?
Chickens raised for
their meat are called
fryers and roasters.
Chickens raised for
eggs are called layers.
The incubation
period for a chicken
egg is about 21 days.
The incubation period
for a turkey egg is
about 28 days.
A hen is capable of
laying eggs without a
rooster, at any time of
the year.
The color of a chicken’s
egg is determined by its
breed.
Did you hear the
one about the egg?
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Why did the chicken
cross the road?
A mature chicken has
about 8,500 feathers.
The United States
poultry industry
produces several
billion pounds of waste
feathers each year.
There are more
chickens in the world
than there are people.
Depending on the
breed, chicken meat
birds are processed
between 5 and 12
weeks of age.
An egg laying hen
begins her egg laying
at about 20 weeks.
What do chickens
grow on?
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(An egg roll)
(Because the rooster
egged her on)
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What kind of egg
lives by the sea?
Crossbreeding a
chicken and turkey
produces a turkin.
Wild turkeys can fly
for short distances up
to 55 miles an hour.
On a quiet day,
gobbling turkeys
can be heard a mile
away.
Poussin is a butcher’s
term for a young
chicken less than 28
days old at slaughter
and usually weighing
14–16 ounces.
(An egg shell)
Poultry
(It’s not all it’s cracked
up to be)
(Eggplants)
In CT most poultry are What do you call a chicken
fed a well-balanced diet
crossing the road?
of corn & soybean meal
mixed w/ vitamins, min(Poultry in motion)
erals & other healthy
ingredients.
Recommended Reading
Words and Terms to Learn
Gobble Gobble
Domestic
Flock
Gobble
Hens and Toms
Strut
Written and
Illustrated by Cathryn Falwell.
Published by Dawn Publication
For additional resources go to: www.ctaef.org