Do you know why hens swallow pebbles?
Do you know why hens like to dig holes and rub their bellies against the ground to make themselves dusty?
Do you know how many eggs a young hen lays per year on average around 1 year old?
Do you know how your favorite eggs are formed?
If you're as curious about chickens as I am, you might as well come with me!
In this "Encyclopedia of Chickens" of Wave Blossoms, there are all the answers we want to know.
The large-format hardcover and fun pull-out pages take us to explore the new world of chickens, allowing us to witness the birth of life - how an egg is formed and how it hatches from an egg to a chick.
From the book, we can learn that the hen swallowed pebbles to aid digestion;It turns out that the hen digs the pit and does a dust bath to get rid of the parasites on the body;It turns out that the chicks lay an average of 300 eggs a year...
Chicken is often served as a delicacy on our tables, but we never get to know it in detail.
In particular, we like to eat grilled chicken and fried chicken, have you ever wondered what they all went through before they came to our table?
1. It usually takes 24 hours for a hen to lay an egg, because it takes exactly 24 hours for the egg to form. So, do you want to know how it goes from yolk to egg white to eggshell membrane to eggshell and finally forms a whole egg?
2. It takes about 21 days for eggs to be laid. Do you want to know what happens every day when a fertilized egg is incubated by a hen?What does the last chick look like?
3. When the chicken grows up, it goes from the chicken coop to the egg laying to the slaughterhouse to the slaughterhouse to the food to our table, do you want to understand what kind of process this is?
This book is a popular science book with chickens as the protagonist, which will take us to understand chickens from different perspectives such as eggs to meat, from ancient times to the present, from biology to humanity.
If you also like chickens and want to know more about the story of chickens, you might as well take your children to start parent-child reading, open the "Encyclopedia of Chickens" and enter the new world of chickens together!