🐾 Chicken & Chick

Watch the video and meet Chicken & Chick!

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Baby Name

A baby chicken is called a chick! Right after hatching, it is also called a hatchling.

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Home

Chickens live on farms in a cozy shelter called a coop — it has wooden nesting boxes filled with soft straw where the mama lays and warms her eggs.

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Food

Mama hens eat seeds, grain, juicy worms, and tiny bugs. Baby chicks drink water and eat special crumble feed — tiny soft pieces of grain made just for them!

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Mama Helps

The mama hen sits on her eggs to keep them warm for 21 days until they hatch. She clucks softly to her chicks even before they break out of their shells, and they peep back to her!

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Baby Learns

Chicks learn to peck at the ground by watching their mama scratch and peck. She shows them which foods are safe to eat and calls them under her wings when danger is near.

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Wow Fact

A mama hen talks to her chicks while they are still inside the egg — and the chicks chirp back through the shell! They already know her voice before they are even born.