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Name Of Chicken

Name Chicken
Male Name rooster
Femle Name hen
Kids/Baby Name chick, pullet (young hen), cockrell (young rooster)
Group Name flock, brood (of hens), clutch (of chicks), peep (of chicks)
More About Chicken

  • A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
  • The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
  • The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around.
  • The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine.
  • The record for laying the most eggs: seven in one day.
  • There are more chickens in the world than any other domesticated bird. More than one chicken for every human on the face of this earth.
  • The longest distance flown by any chicken is 301 1/2 feet. (as the crow flies)
  • Some breeds of chickens can lay colored eggs. Sure enough, the Ameraucana and Araucana canlay eggs colored in shades of green or blue, depending on the breed and it's ancestry.
  • Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed, these breeds are known as "Turkins".
  • The term 'Chicken Pox' didn't come from people believing that they came from chickens, it came from the Old English term 'gican pox' - which means the itching pox.
  • There are approximately 450 million chickens in the United States.
  • There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • Chickens make sounds with actual meaning. They give different alarm calls when threatened by different predators.
  • The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.


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