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Easter Egg Science March 2015  Eggs are a big part of most Easter celebrations, but they're also super versatile for science experiments! With this month's projects, we'll show you how to make a fizzing egg dye and build a ramp for racing eggs.     Get the projects > >    More science for ages 4-9 with HST:   Chicken Life Cycle $7.95 Incubator & 4 Quail Eggs $32.95 Science Lesson: All About Chickens & Eggs How a Chick Hatches A female chicken is called a hen, a baby chicken is called a chick, and a male chicken is called a rooster. A baby chick's life cycle starts when its mother hen lays an egg. This egg has a big yellow yolk that contains all the food the chick needs while it grows inside the egg. The yolk floats in the egg white, which protects it and contains water for the chick. For about 21 days the hen sits on her eggs and covers them with her feathers to keep them warm. Several times a day she turns the eggs with her beak. She does this to keep the yolk from sinking down and crushing the chick against the shell. When it is time for the chick to hatch, it pecks holes in the shell with a bump on its beak called an egg tooth. A few days after the chick has hatched, the egg tooth falls off because the chick no longer needs it! A baby chick has to take lots of breaks to rest, and when it finally gets out of the shell it doesn't get up and move right away—getting out of that egg shell was hard work and the baby is too tired! Its feathers are wet and stringy, but they soon dry and become fluffy. Get complete science lesson > >

You can't cook an egg in its shell in the microwave because the shell traps steam causing it to build up so quickly that the egg may explode! In the United States, most of the hens that lay eggs we buy in grocery stores are called Single-Comb White Leghorns. A hummingbird’s egg is about the size of a jelly bean; a robin’s egg is blue and about the size of a quarter; and ostrich eggs are the largest—bigger than a grapefruit! Why wouldn’t the egg take a hot bath? He didn’t want to be hard boiled! What kind of music do bunnies like? Hip-hop. How do eggs stay healthy? With egg-cercize.   Learn about egg production, from laying, to grading, to shipping! Watch this short video of a baby chick hatching from its shell. Learn more about chickens and the development of baby chicks in their eggs. Newsletter Feedback If you have any feedback about this newsletter, please feel free to send us an email.