05x03 - Chickens Aren't the Only Ones

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♪ Reading rainbow ♪

♪ Butterfly in the sky ♪

♪ I can go twice as high ♪

♪ Take a look ♪

♪ It's in a book ♪

♪ A reading rainbow ♪

♪ I can go anywhere ♪

♪ Friends to know ♪

♪ And ways to grow ♪

♪ A reading rainbow ♪

♪ I can be anything ♪

♪ Take a look ♪

♪ It's in a book ♪

♪ A reading rainbow ♪

♪ Reading rainbow ♪

Tell him
we're ready.

How's my hair?



Here.

Hi, I'm levar burton,
live on location for egg-tv.

[Cock-a-doodle-doo]

Today, as you can see,

I'm down on the farm

For an eggs-clusive
reading rainbow report.

We're here to see if
we can answer

That age-old question--

Which came first,
the chicken or the egg?

[Cock-a-doodle-doo]

Excuse me, gentlemen.
Would you care to comment?

I guess these guys
aren't talking,

But let's go inside

To see what the hens
have to say.

Wow!

These hens
have plenty to say.

Did the first chicken
lay the first egg,

Or did the first chicken
hatch from the first egg?

Which one was it?

Who came first,
the chicken or the egg?

That's not eggs-actly
an easy question.

They don't have
the answer, either.

We have
a late-breaking story.

Chickens aren't
the only ones.

What does that mean?

Well, I bet this book has
the answer to that question.

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Chickens lay
the eggs you buy.

The eggs you boil...

Or fry...

Or dye.

Or leave alone

So you can see
what grew inside naturally.

Chickens aren't
the only ones.

Every bird,
wild or tame...

Does the same.

The ostrich lays
the largest egg.

The hummingbird,

The smallest.

Chickens aren't
the only ones.

Most snakes lay eggs,
and lizards, too.

And crocodiles...

And turtles do.

And dinosaurs,
who are extinct.

But they were
reptiles, too.

Frogs and toads
and salamanders

Lay eggs.

And when they hatch,

They're tadpoles,
who grow legs

And climb a lily pad

Just like
their mom and dad.

They don't have claws
or scaly skins.

They're called amphibians.

Fish eggs float
up to the surface

Or sink to the bottom
of the ocean floor.

This mother sea horse
lays her eggs

Into the father's pouch.

He keeps them there
until they hatch,

And then he's through.

I think that's
nice of him, don't you?

These fathers, too,
are helping out

By guarding eggs,

And they won't leave
until they're sure

That all the eggs
have hatched.

These don't look like
eggs to me,

But they were laid
in the sea.

This one by a shark.

This one by a ray
is a mermaid's purse, they say.

The octopus is said
to shed 100,000 eggs,

And then to hang them up
in strings

Attached to rocks or caves.

The moon snail's eggs
are mixed with sand

To form this
collar-looking band.

Spiders wrap their eggs
in sacks.

And snails, you know,
are very slow,

But they lay eggs
that hatch and grow.

And so do insects,

Who have six legs.

And lay many different
kinds of eggs.

This one will hatch
into a hungry caterpillar

Who will grow

And grow

And grow

And then climb up a stem
and change into this--

A chrysalis.

And change again

One summer morn.

That's how
a butterfly is born.

Animals with fur or hair
who nurse their young

And don't lay eggs are
known as mammals or mammalia.

These are two exceptions,

And they both
live in australia.

Spiny anteater,

Duckbill platypus.

Chickens aren't
the only ones.

There's no more
to discuss.

Everyone who lays an egg
is oviparous.

Animals who don't lay eggs

Have babies
born alive and well,

But that's another tale
to tell.

Chickens may not be
the only ones,

But these are all
chicken eggs,

Dozens and dozens of them.

These aren't the eggs
we eat for breakfast.

These eggs will hatch
into baby chickens.

This is the incubator room,

Where the eggs are
kept safe and warm

Just as if they were
still under their mother.

They will stay here 19 days
at a temperature of 99 degrees.

There are over a dozen
incubators here at the hatchery.

Each one holds
hundreds and hundreds of eggs.

Each day,
over 2,000 chicks will hatch.

To make sure the yoke
doesn't stick to one side,

The hens turn the eggs
with their foot.

Here, it's done
mechanically.

Eggs-traordinary.

I've just
received a report.

This story is about
to break wide open.

♪ Livin' in an egg ♪

♪ Is not all it's
cracked up to be ♪

♪ Oh, no ♪

♪ There's a whole wide world
out there ♪

♪ I'd sure like to see ♪

♪ I'd like to spread
my wings ♪

♪ Though I'm not sure
if chickens can fly ♪

♪ There are so many things ♪

♪ I'll never know I can do ♪

♪ Unless I ♪

♪ I give 'em a try ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ It's hard to leave
the old shell behind ♪

♪ But that's what
growin's all about ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ Without a doubt ♪

♪ Come what may ♪

♪ Today's the day ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ I may be
a little chicken ♪

♪ But I'm not afraid ♪

♪ I've been waiting
for this moment ♪

♪ Since the moment
I was laid ♪

♪ I don't know what
the world is like ♪

♪ But I bet
it's really swell ♪

♪ So make some room ♪

♪ 'Cause today's the day ♪

♪ I'm breakin'
out of my shell ♪

♪ Look out, world ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ I'll make lots of friends
with future roosters and hens ♪

♪ There's no time
to sit and pout ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ Without a doubt ♪

♪ Come what may ♪

♪ Today's the day ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪

♪ Come what may ♪

♪ Today is the day ♪

♪ I'm breakin' out ♪♪

You never know eggs-actly
when something can break

On the egg beat.

Take this quiet beach,

An unlikely setting
for a big story,

But tonight we'll witness
an amazing event.

Loggerhead turtles
will emerge from the ocean

To lay and bury their eggs
right here.

Thanks for the ride,
blair.

Hiya, lou!

Hi, levar.

Have any
turtle sightings?

A loggerhead's
on the beach
above us.

Good. This is
dr. Lou ehrhart,

A turtle biologist.

I think this
loggerhead might
be laying her eggs.

Let's go.

I've never seen
a loggerhead turtle.

Well, they're really
impressive animals.

You'll be excited
when you see
this one.

When I think

I think of little guys
you buy for pets.

I've never been next
to one this big.

All the sea turtles
are really big.

This one's only


The average
is 255hounds.

What's she doing
with the flapping
of her feet?

Let's take a look.

Everytime she raises
those flippers,

She lays some eggs.

She's laying
eggs now?

Wow!

We'll get a look
at that.

There they are.

They look like
ping-pong balls.

I'll show you one.

They're quite durable
at this stage.

Could I touch it?

Sure. Notice the tiny
dimple on it.

You can push
that dimple around.

That's how soft
the shell is.

It feels like a soft
ping-pong ball.

The baby turtle
is inside there?

There's a tiny
embryo in there.

It's beginning
to grow.

How many are
down in there?

Probably about


How many
will she lay?

Probably another


But it could be
much more than that.

Sometimes they lay


Are you kidding?

And she probably
did the same thing
two weeks ago,

And maybe two weeks
before that.

That's a lot of eggs.

Look, she's covering
up the eggs now.

Yeah, and she'll use
those flippers like hands.

Yeah. She's using
them like shovels.

Like a hand
in a mitten.

You can still operate
your hand pretty well

With a mitten on.

Are there
actual separations,

Like four fingers?

Sure. I think
you can feel their
finger bones in there.

They're equivalent
to yours and mine.

There's one there,
one there.

There's one there,
one there,

And one down there.

So she's got five
just like we do.

Exactly like we do.

Loggerheads look
like they're
always crying.

Many people
associate that

With fears
and pain and emotion.

We don't think
it's that at all.

The gland
in the corner
of her eye

Helps rid her body
of salt,

And that salt is
flushed as a fluid.

They're not tears
as we think of human tears.

So she's really
not sad?

Not a bit.

Knock the sand
off her head

And see how
pretty she is.

Many people
think loggerheads
are ugly. I don't.

They're a nice
golden brown color.

Touch the skin
on her neck.

It's much softer
than you might think
for a reptile.

Yeah. She's moving
around a lot.

What's she doing now?

She's begun now
to camouflage
the nest.

She feels she has
to hide it

From raccoons
and other things

That may dig up
those eggs.

What's she
doing now, lou?

Heading back
to the ocean.

This is tiring work
for her.

Moving that big
body around

Has got to be
exhausting.

Especially since
she's not used to
being out of water.

Right. Now she has
to bear her weight.

She lays her eggs
and walks away.

To her,
it's all over.

Most reptiles don't
do any parenting.

Those eggs have to
survive without parents,

But that's really
not the end of the story.

During this season,
there's hatching going on.

If we stay up till dawn,

We might see one
of those hatchings occurring.

You have to
be really lucky

To see something
like this,

But it's
our lucky day.

How long were they
down there?

About seven weeks
in the eggs

And maybe three days
after leaving
the egg.

They've been crawling
up for three days?

Right. They've
pulled sand down

Which raises them up
like an elevator.

Can I pick one up?

He's really moving here.

Exactly. He's got
energy stored up

Ready to
make a long swim.

Where does he go
in the ocean?

He goes maybe 30,


Becomes associated
with floating masses
of seaweed.

Let's set him on his way.

There you go,
little guy.

Bye-bye.

Well, the investigation
continues,

And it's taken us
to some terrific places.

A great place to look
for information

Is in a good book.

Here are some others
you might want to investigate.

Hi, I'm sasha.

I used to wonder how
an egg became a chicken.

I found out from this book.

You'll see how eggs
are formed in a hen's body.

After an egg is fertilized,

The baby chicken starts
growing inside.

It takes about 21 days for
the egg to hatch.

Inside the egg,

The chick hardly looks
like a chicken at all.

This super book
gave me some great ideas.

Get egg to chick
at your library.

Hello,
I'm stephanie jackson.

Isn't it great
to have friends?

I'm here to recommend
a book to you

That tells the story
of two very special friendships,

Called mrs. Huggins
and hehen hannah.

Mrs. Huggins' best friend
was hannah, her hen.

Everything mrs. Huggins did,
hannah did with her.

They baked pies together.

They even milked
the cow together.

One day a sad thing
happened.

Hannah got sick
and then she died.

But there was a big surprise
in store for mrs. Huggins--

And a new friend.

This story taught me
a lot about friendship,

And the pictures in the book
will make you smile.

This book is available
at the public library.

Why not pick it up?

Hi. Do you like
science riddles?

Here's one for you.

What swims in the ocean,
has no feathers,

But lays eggs?

Give up? A turtle!

You can learn more
about turtles in this book--

Turtle and tortoise.

The biggest turtles
are giant leatherback turtles.

They grow to be
about 10 feet long

And weigh one ton.

You'll see baby turtles.

They're really cute.

The biggest tortoises
can grow up to be 4 feet long,

And guess what?

They're even friendly
if no enemies are around.

The book has excellent
photographs,

And it wasn't difficult
to read at all.

I'm michael rhona.

If you're an animal lover,

Head down to your library

And ask for
turtle and tortoise.

People who've been
asking the question--

Which came first,
the chicken or the egg--

Have also said you
shouldn't count your chickens

Before they're hatched.

They hatched,

And there are just
too many to count.

We never did find out
which came first,

The chicken or the egg.

That's because some questions
have more than one answer.

Some of those answers
just lead to more questions.

I wonder which came first,

The question
or the answer?

Well, I guess
that's a good subject

For our next report.

Levar burton, egg-tv.

I'll see you next time.

Today's reading rainbow books
are

Chickens aren't
the only ones

By ruth heller,

Published by
grosset and dunlap.

Egg to chick
by millicent e. Selsam,

Pictures by barbara wolff,
published by harper and rowe.

Mrs. Huggins
and her hen hannah

By lydia dabcovich,
published by e.p. Dutton.

Turtle and tortoise

From the animals in the wild
series by vincent serventy,

Published by raintree
publishers incorporated.