Nothing to tell!!

Nope! Still nothing in the incubator. Having said that Dolly and Pearl were two days late - so will give it another day (maybe two) before we give up completely!

As I have no news about our chicks I thought I would share some of my favourite chicken facts! (You can take the man out of teaching!!)

Little Known Chicken Fact
There are more chickens on Earth than there are humans.

and another...
Chickens can cross breed with turkeys. The result is called a 'Turkin'.

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The greatest number of yolks ever found in a single chicken egg was nine!

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Chickens experience REM (rapid eye movement) during sleep.

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The chicken is the closest living relative of the tyrannosaurus-rex.

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The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.

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China has the most people in the world, and also has the most chickens. There are over 3,000,000,000 chickens in China! (The United States has only 450 million.)

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The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken was 301.5 feet.

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The record for laying the most eggs in one day was seven.

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A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you adjust the lighting in their cages to make them think each day is 28 hours long, instead of 24.

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The fear of chickens is called 'Alektorophobia'.

and finally....
Laid head to claw, all the chickens consumed from KFC worldwide would circle the Earth at the equator 11 times.

How could you crispy crumb gorgeous girls like these?

  (today in an homage to  Dumpling Dynasty)