Fantastic Chicken Facts

Fantastic Chicken Facts

• There are more chickens in the world than any other domesticated bird. More than one chicken for every human on the face of this earth.
• A chicken can travel up to 14.5 km per hour.
• The longest distance flown by any chicken is 92m (as the crow flies).
• The record for laying the most eggs is seven in one day.
• The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine.
• Alektorophobia is a fear of chickens.
• Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed, these breeds are known as "Turkins".
• In Gainesville, Georgia (USA) - the chicken capital of the world - it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork!
• At the Canfield Fair in Ohio (USA), 72,000 people jibed away in the largest Chicken Dance in the world, setting a Guinness World Record!
• A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
• There are seven distinctive types of combs on chickens:rose,strawberry,cushion,buttercup,pea,and V-shaped.
• The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 375 g ,measuring 30cm around.
• A chicken’s heart beat 280 to 315 times per minute.
• A mature female chicken is called a hen.
• A chick is a newly hatched chicken.
• A mature male chicken is called a rooster, a cock, or a roo.
• A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times per day to prevent the yoke from sticking to the side of the shell.
• On average a hen lays 300 eggs per year.
• Chickens lay different color eggs from white, to brown, to pink, to blue, to green.
• Chicken language has real meanings. The birds give different alarm calls depending on which type of predator is threatening them.
• 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.
• The greatest number of yolks ever found in a single chicken egg was nine!
• Chickens experience REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. (I wonder what they dream about?)
• The chicken is the closest living relative of the tyrannosaurus-rex.
• In Gainesville, Georgia, (the chicken capital of the world), a local ordinance makes it illegal to eat your chicken with a fork.
• The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
• 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.)
• The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken was 301.5 feet.
• The record for laying the most eggs in one day was seven.
• 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.
• Chickens can fly, but not for long. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is only thirteen seconds.
• 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.
• 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!