The document outlines the life cycle of a chicken from egg to adulthood in several stages: hens lay eggs which are incubated either by the mother hen or in an incubator, embryos develop inside the eggs until hatching, newly hatched chicks are kept warm in a brooder box as they grow, and the chicks eventually mature into adult hens or cockerels.

1. Life Cycle of a
Chicken
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2. The Life Cycle of a
Chicken.
This picture shows the different
stages of development.

3. This is a hen
Hens lay eggs.

4. This is a hen.
This is a cockerel.

5. This is an egg that
the hen lays.

6. This is Mother
Hen sitting on
her eggs.
This is an
incubator that is
used to keep the
eggs warm.
This is Mother
Hen sitting on
her eggs.

7. Here are some embryos
as they grow.

8. These eggs
are ‘pipping’
and then...

9. … the chick hatches.

10. This is a brooder box we use
when the eggs have hatched.

11. ….and our chicks will grow into
cockerels or hens