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With a worldwide population of more than 25 billion, there are more chickens in the world than any other type of bird. They are kept as pets, as food and as food producers. Many people don't think of chickens except when they appear on a sandwich or their eggs appear on a plate for breakfast, so we're going to take a closer look at... more »
Silkie chickens are a popular breed of backyard chicken. They make excellent surrogate mothers. Silkie chickens are considered an ancient breed of chicken and originally came from Japan and China. more »
Dumb birds? Chickens are like the rest of the bird population, there are some bozos and some geniuses. Most chickens are gentle, and can be tamed as easily as any other bird and they'll love you for trying. more »
If you are a caregiver for live chickens, it is important to feed them properly. These birds will be providing eggs and meat for human consumption, and must be healthy and well developed. more »
Whether your chickens are egg layers or meat producers, they have the same basic nutrition requirements. Find out what to feed your chickens to keep them healthy and how to feed them in their coop or the backyard. more »
You can breed chickens for consumption, shows, producing eggs or just as a hobby. But first you must learn the things to look for in each chicken... more »
Chickens can make for interesting pets and great farm animals. However, when you are looking to keep chickens in a city setting, different rules... more »
Whether being purchased as regular family pets or as livestock for eggs or meat, chickens require special feed and housing and buying the right... more »
Up until World War II, families often kept a small flock of chickens in the backyard. Chickens provide obvious benefits such as eggs, insect... more »
Raising grass-fed chickens is a wonderful hobby for those who choose to raise their own animals for food. The chickens can be for laying eggs... more »
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003,according to Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds, Ed. Perrins, Christopher. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, Ltd., 2003. there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.
Conventional wisdom has held that the chicken was domesticated in India,"Sherman"/> but recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was already under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago.Sherman>Sherman, David M. (2002). Tending Animals in the Global Village. Blackwell Publishing. 46. ISBN 0683180517. From India the domesticated fowl made its way to the Persianized kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor, domestic fowl were imported to Greece by the fifth century BCE.Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, (Anthea Bell, translator) The History of Food, Ch. 11 "The History of Poultry", revised ed. 2009, p. 306. Fowl had been known in Egypt since the 18th Dynasty, with the "bird that lays every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Tutmose III.Howard Carter, "An Ostracon Depicting a Red Jungle-Fowl (The Earliest Known Drawing of the Domestic Cock)" The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 9.1/2 (April 1923), pp. 1-4.
The chicken is believed to have descended from both the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and the Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii), though hybrids of both wild types usually tend to be sterile. Recent genetic work has revealed that the genotype for yellow skin present in the domestic fowl is not present in what is otherwise its closest kin, the Red Junglefowl. It is most likely that the yellow skin trait in domestic birds originated in the Grey Junglefowl.Eriksson J, Larson G, Gunnarsson U, Bedhom B, Tixier-Boichard M, et al. (2008) Identification of read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
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