The document summarizes the life cycle of a chicken in 4 sentences: 1) A chicken's life cycle starts as an egg and takes about 3 weeks for it to hatch into a chick, and then about 3 months for it to become an adult chicken. 2) The stages of its life cycle include the egg with a hard shell, a tired and wet chick after hatching whose feathers dry within hours, and the adult chicken that lays eggs continuing the cycle. 3) Eggs incubate for 21 days while being rotated for the first 18 days and left still for the last 3, and hatching begins with a hole in the shell over the course of a day. 4) The document also outlines the