We at the typesofchicken.com team try to find as much useful
information about keeping chickens as possible and we give our best to share it
and combine our opinions with you. This process depends a lot on the time we
spend in research. During our research we have found many interesting facts
about your favorite bird that may or may not be directly connected with keeping
chickens but are good to know.This is why we decided to share with you 40 Facts
You Might Not Know About Chicken:
1. Chicken are not able to taste sweetness.
They can eat salty food but it can be bad for their health.
2. The name of the dance the rooster performs is
Tidbitting.
Researchers have found that females prefer males that often
perform tidbitting and have larger, brighter combs on top of their heads.
3. The human body is 60% water but the chickens is 75%
water
4. When a chicken lays an egg that eggs temperature is
105 degrees Fahrenheit(40 degrees Celsius)
5. When stressed, a chicken losses feathers
6. If the egg white is cloudy, that means the egg is
fresh
Color of the egg yolk is also a very important indicator for
the quality of your egg.
7. Chickens can recognize over 100 different faces of
humans and animals
8. A chicken can survive for a short time without its
head
9. If you are afraid of chickens, you have
Alektorophobia.
10. Chicken see and dream in color
11. A normal and healthy hen can lay more than 300 eggs a
year
12. Each sound a chicken makes can mean something
specific
Some chicken communicate through movement and sound and can
warn other chicken about threats such as predators and bad food.
13. A chick starts to develop at 88 degrees Fahrenheit(32
degrees Celsius)
14. The record number in laying eggs in 1 day by a hen is
7.
15. According to scientists, people started keeping
chickens 8000 years ago.
16. There are more chickens in the world than people.
17. Chickens don’t pee, it is mixed with the poo.
18. Who has more bones in their neck giraffes or chicken?
Chicken
19. Chickens can feel pain and stress.
20. Chickens
love to jump and play in the sun.
Chickens can also remember and recognize their toys after
playing with them few times.
21. Hens have exhibited mathematical reasoning.
22. The quality of the chicken
coop affects the behavior of the chicken.
23. Every backyard flock of chickens has a leader.
24. Chickens origins come from tropical rainforests.
25. Chickens are the closest living relative to the
famous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Chickens deserve to be treated with a little more respect in
light of new evidence about their terrifying ancestry.
26. Hens are known to talk to their unborn chicks.
Also hens are known for their ability to teach their chicks
to adapt to their environment.
27. The oldest chicken is 22 years old and its name is
Muffy.
28. Chicken mourn their dead.
29. The heart of a chicken can beat more than 300 times a
minute.
30. Some scientists say that the first chickens were kept
for cockfighting, not food.
31. There are hundreds of different
chicken breeds around the world.
32. When a female chicken is born it is a chick, then it
grows into a pullet and when it gains the ability to lay eggs it becomes a hen.
33. The color of the chickens ear lobes indicates the
color of the egg, red= brown eggs and white= white eggs.
35. The record number of egg yolks found in an egg is 9.
36. A normal and healthy mother hen turns her egg around
50 times a day.
37. There is a myth that chickens can change genders – it
is not true.
38. As the hen gets older, the number of the eggs she can
lay gets smaller but the eggs themselves get bigger.
39. Hens eat their own raw eggs if they are not satisfied
with their diet.
Chicken are omnivores and they can eat almost
anything.
40. A chicken beak can bleed.
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