Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Chicken Facts



















As you know the Chicken is the most often eaten food in the whole world. Same as the breed of chickens is the most prevalent. In fact, chicken is more numerous than humans are. The fact is there is over chicken for every man in the world. In other words, there's more chickens in the world than there's humans. In China alone, who have the most people in the world, has also the most chickens. Here you can read the most popular food facts mean the chicken facts.


Animals like the hawks, bobcats, snakes, skunks, owls, raccoons, foxes and opposums prey on chickens.



Chickens we
re first tamed six,000 years ago, and there's now over 200 breeds, including bantams and Rhode Island reds.


The USDA does not make any claims that organically produced food is any safer or more nourishing than conventionally produced food, adds Wallace.

They have about billion chickens as compared to the United States 450 million. Chickens are so popular that there's 150 varieties of domestic chickens. Interestingly , of the cities in the United States have the word chicken in their name. These were the following: Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; Chicken, Alaska and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania. The queer thing about chickens is that it is the closest living relative of the fearful


In the U.S., abou
t 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets.


A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.


Swiss accordian player Werner Thomas created the song and corresponding dance in the 1950s.

Domestic chickens feed on seeds and insects but wild chicken can eat even lizards and young mice.


And probably the most confusing label of them all afree range. Chicken labelled as free range is meant to be leaner, but again, specialists warn the claim can be misleading.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Chicken Facts













A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.

A chicken is 75% water

A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell.

I was surprised to read the chicken facts from the web. Actually we friends are doing the group work on the birds and collecting some best amazing facts about the birds. I am searching the chicken facts now a days so i have created the blog of facts for you guys to share my knowledge.
















The red Jungle fowl Gallus gallus is generally believed to be the ancestor of the modern domesticated chicken.

Some breeds of chickens can lay coloured eggs: Ameraucana and Araucana can lay eggs colored in shades of green or blue, depending on the breed.

Americans consume a average of 8 billion chickens each year !

China has over 3,000,000,000 chickens and over 10,000,000,000 horses

If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.

A chicken can have 4 or 5 toes on each foot.

A hen will lay eggs, even in the absence of a rooster. Eggs from the grocery store, will not hatch if you put them in an incubator, as they are generally not fertile.

In the U.S. 46% of all chicken eaten is consumed in
restaurants.

Here are some more amazing chicken facts are waiting for you. I know you are really enjoying my collection of amazing chicken facts so keep reading some more facts are below.

A "Cornish Game Hen" is actually a 5-6 week old
chicken.

The world's longest flight of a chicken that has been recorded is 13 seconds.

The world's longest distance flight of a chicken that has been recorded is 301½ feet .

A chicken moves at about 14 kilometres per hour.

Uneaten, a chicken can live 8 years.

The fear of chickens is called Alektorophobia.

The Latin name for chicken is Gallus Domesticus.

There are over 150 varieties of domestic chickens.

Chickens were domesticated about 8,000 years ago.

So that the yoke does not stick to the egg shell, a mother hen turns it egg about 50 times each day.