Funny Chicken Facts.
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There are more to chickens then you may think! Like for example did you know there are more chickens on earth than there are people, over three billion in china alone? This blog will tell you facts about chickens.
1. There are at least two hundred breeds and variations of domestic chickens on record, most though are extinct or rare.
2. There are more chickens on earth than there are people, over three billion in china alone.
3. The red Jungle fowl Gallus gallus is generally believed to be the ancestor of the modern domesticated chicken.
4. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken began in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago.
5. If you have a fear of chickens you may be Alektorophobic.
6. Chickens are the closest living relative of the tyrannosaur.
7. Chickens are sociable animals ,they form firm friendships and aviod chickens they do not know.
8. The rooster is a real gentleman so to speak and when he finds something good to eat he often calls his hens to eat first.
9. Chickens can fly short distances.
10. Chickens will be less 'flighty' if while tending a pen or chicken house the caretaker walks backwards.
11. You can literally hypnotize a chicken by holding it and drawing a line in the dirt over and over the chicken will stay still
12. A rooster will usually perform a special waltz or dance in an attempt to attract a mate.
13. In 1925, hens laid an average of 100 eggs a year. In 1979, the World Record was set by a White Leghorn who laid 371!
14. America eats 8 billion chickens a year.
15. Shock of chicken head!
16. Hooters restaurants sell 30 million pounds of chicken wings each year. That is enough to circle the earth at the equator.
17. A headless chicken can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
18. If a chicken has red ear lobes, it will lay brown eggs if it has white earlobes it will lay white eggs.
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