Chicken

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The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of more than 19 billion as of 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird or domesticated fowl. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food and, less commonly, as pets. Originally raised for cockfighting or for special ceremonies, chickens were not kept for food until the Hellenistic period ,more info:wiki

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#10 Women, village chickens, and animal source food consumption in Timor-Leste,more info:cgiar

In this blog, Johanna Wong, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, shares research findings from Timor-Leste about the promotors and inhibitors of animal source food consumption in rural households. Johanna’s research investigates the links between village chickens, maternal and child diets, and nutritional status in Timor-Leste.

Linkages between agriculture and nutrition are not always clear. However, both women and livestock are important actors in each sector – women make up 43 percent of the agricultural labor force and play a vital role in the provision of nutrition for their families, and livestock are both highly valued assets and an important animal source food that enriches plant-based diets with high quality macro- and micronutrients.

Village chickens are where women, livestock, and nutrition intersect. Chickens are particularly important in households with few other assets – they are inexpensive to buy, scavenge for their own food, sit on their eggs until they hatch, and look after their own chicks. They are often the first rung of the “livestock ladder,” in which households progressively invest in chickens, small ruminants, pigs, and finally large ruminants as their livestock assets and household wealth grow. Importantly, chickens are often the only livestock women have complete control over, giving them additional significance in women’s empowerment and household nutrition.

#9 Relaxing animal videos – Free Range Rooster and His Chicken Flock – Chicken Sounds,more info:Anže Rogelja

#8 Fowl Language: AI Decodes the Nuances of Chicken “Speech”,more info:scientificamerican

Chickens are loquacious creatures, and Kevin Mitchell would know. He oversees the care of about a million of them on Wilcox Farms properties in Washington State and Oregon.

Mitchell says the birds have “patterns of speech” that reveal a lot about their well-being. They are usually noisiest in the morning—a robust concert of clucks, chortles and caws. “When I hear that, I know they are pretty healthy and happy,” Mitchell says. In the evenings when they’re preparing to roost, the chickens are much more mellow, cooing softly. When a hen lays an egg she celebrates with a series of staccato clucks, like drumbeats, culminating in a loud “buck-caw!” If chickens detect an aerial predator—say, by spotting the shadow of a hawk or eagle—they produce a short, high-pitched shriek. And they have a distinct warning for terrestrial threats: The repetitive clucking most people associate with chickens is in fact a ground predator alarm call.

#7 CHICKEN ANIMAL NAMES AND PICTURES,more info:animalnamesandpictures.blogspot

Chicken is the most widely poultry animals reared by humans, it is estimated there are more than 25 billion chickens worldwide are kept and bred for various purposes such as for ornamental chickens, fighting cocks, to take their eggs (laying hens) and also for meat consumption (broilers).

Chicken is the most widely farmed now thought to have come from the partridge species originating from India who began spreading from Vietnam. Because the chicken is very fast animals adapt to humans and the environment as well as easy maintenance chickens then spread rapidly to all regions in Asia and then spread to Europe and Africa.

Right now, chicken was a world wide animals, almost every country has a chicken farm and a lot of people consume chickens everyday.