One of Mother Hen's little chicks is missing. Did they leave him in the house? Is he hiding in his bed, or under a bush? Mother Hen and the neighbors search high and low, but there's still no sign of the missing chick.

What happens when two baby chickens find themselves in a nest with a hawk? Don't hawks usually eat chickens? Sunshine, a red-tailed hawk, can no longer fly free. But her instinct to be a mother is so strong that she builds a nest in her aviary every spring and lays two infertile eggs. One year, Kara, her caretaker, decides to try something different. She gives Sunshine two chicken eggs. Join zoologist Kara Hagedorn and Sunshine to find out what happens...

Peg the Egg is safe within her shell, and does not want to hatch--but sooner or later all little chicks must face the world.

Hatched at the same time, the chick is successful at imitating the duck until the latter goes for a swim.

When all the hens can only quarrel about whose egg is the most beautiful, Kiki not only makes all the eggs beautiful, she saves them from the weasel as well.

Follows an egg from the time it is laid, through its incubation under the hen's body, to the chick's birth after twenty-one days.