20 facts about chickens:I keep 9 chickens, 2 roosters and 7 hens. They are sociable birds and they live a sociable life with their own society and their own rules. They communicate with each other and all most everything they do is important to them. So here are the top 20 chicken facts for you to read:
Chicken Fact 1:
Chicken are pretty fast. The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour when it wants to.
Chicken Fact 2:
The largest ever recorded chicken egg weighed nearly 12 ounces, and measured 12.25 inches around.
Chicken Fact 3:
Chicken language has real meanings. The birds give different alarm calls depending on which type of predator is threatening them.
Chicken Fact 4:
There are more chickens on Earth than there are humans.
Chicken Fact 5:
Chickens can cross breed with turkeys. The result is called a 'Turkin'.
Chicken Fact 6:
There are four cities in the United States that have the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
Chicken Fact 7:
The greatest number of yolks ever found in a single chicken egg was nine!
Chicken Fact 8:
Chickens experience REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. (I wonder what they dream about?)
Chicken Fact 9:
The chicken is the closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus - Rex.
Little Known Chicken Fact 10:
In Gainesville, Georgia, (the chicken capital of the world), a local ordinance makes it illegal to eat your chicken with a fork.
Little Known Chicken Fact 11:
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
Chicken Fact 12:
China has the most people in the world, *and* also has the most chickens. There are over 3,000,000,000 chickens in China! (The United States has only 450 million.)
Chicken Fact 13:
The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken was 301.5 feet.
Chicken Fact 14:
The record for laying the most eggs in one day was seven.
Chicken Fact 15:
There are more chickens in the world than there are of any other domesticated bird. In fact, there's more than one chicken for every human on the face of this earth.
Chicken Fact 16:
Chickens can fly, but not for long. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is only thirteen seconds.
Chicken Fact 17 :
A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you adjust the lighting in their cages to make them think each day is 28 hours long, instead of 24.
Chicken Fact 18 :
Chickens eggs come in colors sometimes, (other than white and brown). Some breeds lay eggs in shades of blue or green. Ready-made Easter Eggs!
Chicken Fact 19:
The fear of chickens is called 'Alektorophobia'.
Chicken Fact 20:
Laid head to claw, all the chickens consumed from KFC worldwide would circle the Earth at the equator 11 times.
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