Chicken vocab

2. An adult female chicken that lays eggs.
3. A specialized, muscular organ in the digestive tract that grinds up ingested food using swallowed stones and grit.
10. Insoluble small stones swallowed by chickens to assist the gizzard in grinding food,
11. days an egg is incubated until it hatches.
12. An enclosed outdoor area attached to a coop that allows chickens to move, scratch, and stretch safely.
13. A set of eggs laid by a single hen over consecutive days before she begins incubation or pauses laying.
15. A pouch at the base of a chicken's neck where food is temporarily stored and softened before moving to the stomach.
17. A male chicken less than one year old.
19. (Cuticle) The invisible, natural protective coating applied to a fresh eggshell that seals pores and blocks bacteria from entering.
20. The periodic process where chickens shed old feathers and grow new ones,

1. The technique of shining a bright light through an egg in a dark room to check shell quality, air cell size, or embryo development.
4. Device designed to heat and incubate eggs.
5. Box A dark, quiet compartment inside the coop lined with clean bedding where hens can lay their eggs.
6. Feed Formulated chicken feed engineered egg production.
7. The fleshy red skin hanging below a chicken's beak, which works alongside the comb to dissipate heat.
8. An adult male chicken, primarily responsible for flock protection
9. The behavioral state where a hen sits continuously on a nest of eggs to hatch them,
14. The natural behavior of chickens scratching the ground and pecking for seeds, insects, and vegetation.
16. A young female chicken
18. The red, fleshy crest on top of a chicken's head that helps regulate body temperature by circulating blood.