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There is more to learn about chicks. Here are a few good websites for you to check out. Please remember that if you go to one of these websites. you will be leaving this wiki and go out onto the BIG World Wide Web.

This first website will tell you all about the life cycle of a chick. It has great pictures of what happens each day plus a lot more information. []

See inside a hatchery and see what candling is. http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/poultry/poultry_vr.html

[|4 H Virtual Hatch Project]

University of Nebraska 4H Embryology project http://lancaster.unl.edu/4H/Embryology/hatchpic.shtml

Watch a chick hatch. http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/poultry/poultry_hatching.html#

Another chick hatching video from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/videos/video-detail/activities/the-hatchery/

http://www.holisticbirds.com/pages/egg1003.htm

This website is from the publishers of __Mother Earth News__ and is dedicated to informing you all about chickens. http://www.communitychickens.com/

This website offers information for those wishing to raise chicks in their backyard. http://www.webelfin.com/chickens/index.html

This website has lots of information about chickens. It tells you about the many breeds of chickens, how to care for them, and lots more. http://www.omlet.us/homepage/homepage.php

How fresh are your eggs? Here is a test to see how fresh your store bought eggs are. Try it and see. http://www.omlet.us/guide/guide.php?view=Chickens&cat=Eggs&sub=freshness http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-an-Egg-is-Bad

[|All about chickens for Kids and teachers]


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[|Chickens at the National Zoo]

Paly the Chicken Stacker game and practice your short vowel sounds.[|Go to the game.]

[|Chicken Fact sheet]

Here are some worksheets to help you learn more about chick embryos. ** 


 * [[file:Label the Chicken Egg 10 days old.pdf]]

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Here are some books about chickens. · Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller · Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones video published by Reading Rainbow · Henny Penny by Paul Galdone · The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine · Little Red Hen by Janina Domanska · Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins · The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg by Bill Peet · Scholastic’s The Egg by Gallimard Jeunesse and Pascale de Bourgoing · The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza · Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney · Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg · The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci · Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A Chick Hatches by Joanna Cole and Jerome Wexler · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Why the Chicken Crossed the Road// by David Macaulay · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?// by <span class="ptbrand" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tedd Arnold, Harry Bliss, David Catrow, Marla Frazee, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Raschka, Judy Schachner, David Shannon, Mo Willems Jon Agee <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//The Eggsters' Story: (Why the Chicken Crossed the Road)// by Ken Harvey

Here is an old book that you can see and read online. It is called __The Little Wise Chicken that Knew It All__ by Kenneth Graham Duffield. [|Read it now.]

[|More chicken books] What famous philosophers and others MIGHT have said if asked ... Why did the chicken cross the road? (Parents - you'll enjoy this.) [|Go to site.]

[|Chicken Jokes and Riddles]