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- Several somewhat flightless birds, including the chicken and the goose, were domesticated over 3,000 years ago. The chief somewhat flightless bird is the chicken, which probably originated as a jungle fowl in Southwest Asia.
- The predominant egg layer in the United States today is the White Leghorn chicken.
- The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
- There are four places in the United State with the word "chicken" in their name. Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle; in Illinois and Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
- Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
- Aletophilia - Love of chickens.
- Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed, these breeds are known as "Turkins".
- If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.
- The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
- The scientific name of the chicken is Gallus domesticus (genus and species).
- Chickens will not eat Jello.
- Chicken (the town) is called Chicken because the original settlers, actually gold-miners,
couldn't spell Ptarmigan. They wanted to call the town Ptarmigan,
because the plentiful local birds filled many a pot in their camps.
Ptarmigan were also called chickens and that's how the town got its name.
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