Understanding Chickens & Eggs

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Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide useful facts about chickens and their eggs.

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Barred Rock Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Barred Rock Chickens in this free online video.

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Brown Leg Horn Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Brown Leg Horn Chickens in this free online video.

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Chicken Feed
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about chicken feed in this free online video.

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Crested Polish Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Crested Polish Chickens in this free online video.

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Facts About Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide basic facts about chickens in this free online video.

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How to Read Chicken Egg Carton Labels
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to read chicken egg carton labels in this free online video.

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How to Read Chicken Egg Carton Labels: Part 2
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to read chicken egg carton labels in this free online video.

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Rhode Island Red Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Rhode Island Red Chickens in this free online video.

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Silver Laced Wyandotte Dot Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Silver Laced Wyandotte Dot Chickens in this free online video.

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South American Blue-Egg Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about South American Blue-Egg Chickens in this free online video.

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The Difference Between Caged & Free-Range Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain the difference between caged and free-range chickens in this free online video.

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The Difference Between Hens & Roosters
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain the difference between hens and roosters in this free online video.

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The History of Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide a short history of chickens in this free online video.

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Top Hat Chickens
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about Top Hat Chickens in this free online video.

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Types of Chicken Eggs
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about various kinds of chicken eggs in this free online video.

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When Chickens Can Lay Eggs
Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to tell if a chicken is mature enough to lay eggs in this free online video.

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Tags: pets, animals, chicken, hen, farms, coop, rooster

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Summary: The chicken is one of the most wide-spread domesticated animals. There are more chickens -- 24 billion, to be exact -- than any other bird on Earth. Primarily kept as a source of food, chickens are also sometimes kept as pets. Males are known as roosters, and females as hens, and together chickens form flocks. Contrary to popular belief, roosters do not only crow at dawn; since the call is a territorial sign to other roosters, they may crow at any time of day or night.

In this free video series, an expert naturalist will teach you all about various breeds of chicken. She will tell you the history of chickens, when a hen is likely to lay her eggs, and even how to read the labels on the eggs you find in the supermarket.

About the Expert

Expert: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is involved in all aspects of the sanctuary’s educational teaching programs for all ages, developing curricula and interpretive materials, developing and implementing classroom teacher workshops, and working on numerous grants in communities and schools. Tia is also in charge of Drumlin Farm’s extensive offering of adult programs covering all aspects of natural history, with a focus on birding. Tia was a high school science teacher for many years. She grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut and has a BA in Biology and an MS in Human Anatomy.

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