There are four places in the United States with the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle in Illinois and Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
According to lore, Chicken, Alaska got its name because the locals wanted to honor the state bird, the Ptarmigan, by naming their town Ptarmigan, Alaska. But they couldn’t spell Ptarmigan. However, they could spell Chicken. Chicken, Alaska currently has a population of about 2,177 and an average household income of around $48,045.
September is National Chicken Month. Good time for a chicken festival.
A rooster will attack anything he thinks will harm the hens (that includes humans).
There are more chickens than people in the World.
Chickens have been tested to see how they react to human faces. The ones they prefer are consistent with human sexual preferences. In other words chickens like beautiful people best.
If you suffer from Alektorophobia, you have a fear of chickens.
The chicken has been known to travel up to nine miles per hour.
The greatest number of yolks found in one chicken egg is nine.
It normally takes a hen 24-26 hours to lay an egg. However, the record for laying the most eggs is seven in one day.
There is more than one chicken for every person on Earth.
Some chickens lay colored eggs. Rust colored chickens, such as the Rhode Island Red, lay brown eggs. The Ameraucana and Araucana can lay eggs in shades of green or blue depending on the breed and its ancestry. There is no discernible difference in nutrition between colored eggs and white eggs.
Not only does China have the most people, it also has the most horses (10,000,000) and the most chickens – more than 3,000,000,000 of them.
Turkens are not a hybrid of turkeys and chickens. They are a breed unto themselves believed to have been developed in Hungary and perfected in Germany.
According to a local ordinance, in Gainesville, Georgia it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying eggs and begin to crow.
The closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex is the chicken.
A chickens’ heart beats 280-315 times a minute.
A chicken can have four or five toes on each foot.
The Latin name for chicken is Gallus Domesticus.
There are over 150 varieties of domestic chickens.
Chickens were domesticated about 8,000 years ago.
A rooster takes 18-20 breaths a minute, a hen 30-35.
All domestic chickens can be genetically traced to Gallus Gallus, The Red Jungle Fowl.
The first Poultry Exhibition was held in the United States on November 14, 1849. There were 219 exhibitors, 1023 birds, and over 10,000 visitors.
The American Poultry Association (APA) is the oldest livestock organization in the United States . Established in 1873, the APA recognizes 115 Breeds of chickens. Each Breed is broken up into Varieties usually based on plumage color or placement, or comb style. There are more than 400 Varieties of chickens.
There are nine different comb styles for chickens: single, rose, spiked rose, cushion, pea, walnut, strawberry, buttercup and V.
Different chicken breeds vary in temperament. They can be docile, flighty or aggressive. Chickens also have personalities and, like people, some are friendly and some are just plain onry.
In 1863 Charles Darwin published an inventory of the chicken breeds existing at that time....all 13 of them.
Providing that pressure is applied at the ends and not the middle of a chicken egg, a well-formed egg shell can support up to nine pounds of pressure before breaking. 