Homestead Farm For
Kids!
Tcluckhings You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About:

Chickens!!
1. A chickens heart beats about 280-315 times per minute.
2. A chicken is a bird, but cannot fly.
3. It takes a chicken 24 to 26 hours to lay one egg.
4. Different kinds of chickens lay different colored eggs.
5. The largest egg ever laid by a chicken reportedly weighed one pound.

Ben and Maureen Allnutt
Homestead Farm, 15600 Sugarland Road, Poolesville, Maryland 20837 • 301-926-6999