Some facts about chickens

  • The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Jungle Fowl.
  • Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are not capable of sustained flight.
  • Chickens can travel up to 9 mph.
  • The longest distance flown by a chicken is 90.4 m (301½ feet).
  • There are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird.
  • Hens start laying eggs at about 6 months.
  • Alektorophobia is the name given to " the fear of chickens "
  • Life expectancy:  5 to 10 years depending on their environment.
  • The world's oldest chicken, a hen, died of heart failure at the age of sixteen according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
  • There are over 450 million chickens in the U.S. alone.
  • A chicken can lay more than six hundred eggs in her first 2 years.
  • Chickens are omnivores.
  • American people consume a average of 8.000.000.000 chickens each year.
  • Chickens need between fourteen to sixteen hours of light each day to lay.
  • There are more then one chicken for every person on the face of the earth
  • In the United States chickens produce around 80 millions eggs each year. 
  • In the UK and Ireland adult male chickens are primarily known as cocks, whereas in America, Canada and Australia they are more commonly called roosters.