Chicken Facts
Chicken Facts
- On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year.
- Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg.
- A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell.
- To produce a dozen eggs, a hen has to eat about four pounds of feed.
- The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shell.
- A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.
- A chicken is 75% water.
- In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets.
- Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older.
- A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.
- A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
