This simply stunning and unusual plush toy makes a wonderful surprise gift for anyone who appreciates the love of realism with which it was designed.The realistic features and stunning craftsmanship make this plush chicken a wonderful addition to any stuffed animal collection and a fun topic of conversation when visitors discover this unique toy. Female chickens are called hens and are known as domesticated chickens, the term for birds that are kept as pets or on a farm. Farmers keep chickens because they lay eggs that can be eaten. But a chick may grow inside some eggs. When that happens, the mother hen turns the egg up to 50 times a day to make sure the chick gets enough heat. Hens can lay over 300 eggs a year, which is a lot of eggs. Fast fact there are more chickens on earth than people 25 billion. The record for the number of eggs a chicken lays in a day is 7.