Chicken and Eggs Program
Welcome Parents and Teachers!
Spring on the farm is all about new life—warmer days, fresh grass, seedlings, buds, and of course, chickens and eggs! At Stone Barns, it’s the perfect time to learn about our interesting feathered friends, their habitat, egg laying and instincts.
In this section of the Stone Barns website, teachers and parents can find interactive activities, useful information and fun facts about the day-to-day life of the chickens at Stone Barns Center—best suited for children grades K-2. This material is an extension of chicken and egg education at Stone Barns—a great way to engage kids in farm facts if you can’t visit us, or to enhance the class or child experience surrounding a visit. Get an inside look and learn about the lives and needs of chickens on our sustainable farm. Happy Spring!
Click here for the Stone Barns Center chicken and eggs fact sheet.
Chicken and Eggs KEY TERMS.
For pictures and information, check out our chicken and eggs slideshow:
Use these diagrams to learn about a chicken’s special features—one with parts identified and one with blanks for kids to fill in.
Take a close, junior scientist’s look at the feather with this feather diagram and activity.
Use this frittata recipe to cook up a delicious, healthy egg snack.
Get to know our chickens’ habitat with these egg-mobile diagrams—one with parts identified and one with blanks for kids to fill in.
Take a step inside an egg-mobile! Listen to this audio clip of the sounds inside our laying hens’ home. Hear them cluck, coo, crow and flap their wings:
Watch our hens take a dust bath and find out why they use this natural instinct by watching this video:
See our chicks mature in this brooder barn slideshow:
Have more questions about chickens and eggs? Submit your questions to adrianas@stonebarnscenter.org and stay tuned for a video with answers from one of our farmers.
*Each spring, Stone Barns Center participates in the Chicken and Eggs program in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Incubation and Embryology program. To learn more about the Chicken and Eggs program, click here.