- 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.
Some facts about chickens
