FOWL FACTS:

   ·       On average a hen lays 300 eggs per year.

·       Nine yolks have been found in one egg.

·       A mother hen turns her eggs approximately 50 times in one day.

·       To produce one dozen eggs the average chicken has to eat four pounds of feed.

·       The largest egg ever laid weighed a pound in weight and had a double yolk and shell.

·       A chicken is around 75% water

·       Hens  produce larger eggs as they get older

·       Chickens can loose all its feathers if it becomes stressed.

·       There are more chickens than people in the world.

·       A hen once had its head chopped off and survived for over 18 months, headless!!!!

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