1. On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year.

2. Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg.

3. A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell.

4. To produce a dozen eggs, a hen has to eat about four pounds of feed.

5. The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shell.

6. A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobe swill produce white eggs.

7. A chicken is 75% water.

8. In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from

restaurants or other food outlets.

9. Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older.

10. A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.

11. A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.