In today's time, the animal whose eggs are consumed by humans is the chicken. Have you ever noticed why humans mostly eat chicken eggs and not any other animal? To know the answers to many such questions, we have written some facts about chicken which will increase your knowledge regarding the chicken and its egg.
- Chickens (cock and hen) are very social
creatures. They stay in the family and can even die in saving their
family members. They understand the problems of other chickens and
chicks. They are all deeply saddened by the death of one of their
family members. Generally, male chickens are known as roosters, and females
are known as hens.
- Chickens and their chicks love to play, run
and be in the sun, but most of the chickens in the world do not get to see
the outside world, they have to live less than a foot in the cage.
- Chickens also dream like humans. In
dreams, they also travel to the outside world where they have never ever been.
- Research has shown that if chickens are living
in the open, they are 90% successful in escaping from their
predators. They are able to do this through their escape zig-zag
route. You must have seen the hard work that goes into catching a
chicken on TV too.
- Chickens do a kind of dance to get noticed by
the hen which is called tidbitting. In which he shakes his head up
and down and a different kind of sound comes out. The hen is more
attracted towards the same chicken whose frontal (wattle) is the largest.
- Hens can also talk to the unborn chicks of
their eggs and the chicks also chirp from inside the egg in response to
that. But this happens very rarely with eggs because most of the eggs
are separated from their mother soon after coming out into the world.
- Chickens like to play with dust and bathe in
it. They defend their body from bacteria and parasites in this
way. When they are not able to bathe in the dust while living in the
farms, they get very upset.
- Rooster and chickens live free in the
wildlife for 5 to 11 years, but these animals that are raised never live
their full life. Chickens that are raised for meat are killed as soon
as they are 45 to 50 days old. In the egg factory, the chicken is
killed within a short time of coming out of the egg. The name of the
longest living chicken till now is Matilda, which lived for 16 years.
- Chickens also see everything as colorful as
humans, but these creatures can also see ultraviolet radiation which
humans cannot see.
- Most of the hens lay eggs from 7 am to 11 am.
- Hens also teach their chicks which food to eat
and which not to eat. She also tells the difference between
nutritious and bad food to the chicks from her experience and she can also
tell all these things to the chicks present inside the egg.
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- A chicken's heart beats 220 to 360 times in a
minute, which is much higher than that of a human.
- If classical songs are played in front of hens,
they lay large and heavy eggs. Similarly, if a classical song is
played in front of cows, they also give more milk.
- Chickens are omnivorous that eat both plants
and meat. They also eat grain, seeds, insects, and animals such as small
mice and lizards. It has also been seen that if they are not happy
with their diet, they eat their own egg.
- It takes 24 to 26 hours for a chicken to make
an egg and as soon as it lays the egg, it starts the process of making
another egg within half an hour. It takes 21 days for a hen to hatch
an egg and take out a chick. To make a dozen i.e. 12 eggs, a hen has
to eat about 500 grams of the food.
- There are thousands of undeveloped egg yolks
in a chicken's body, but a hen lays only one egg yolk in an egg.
- When chickens are under stress or trouble, their
feathers start falling, if your chicken or chicken is losing its feathers,
then understand that it is under stress.
- Chickens come in the class of birds that
cannot fly, the record for the longest flight ever is 13 seconds and that
hen flew 301 feet far in that time duration.
- You will be very surprised to know that even
if the head of a rooster is cut off, it can still run 100 meters before
dying. A rooster named Mike lived for 18 days even after
beheading. The owner of that chicken used to feed him by putting a
pipe in the food pipe of his neck. Finally, 18 days later, he died
due to his throat being choked by the same pipe.
- Chickens are present everywhere in the world
except Antarctica and Vatican City. There are chickens at Castel
Gandolfo, 26 miles away from Vatican City.
- A light-weight normal hen excretes about 50 kg
of feces every year, while large and heavy breed chickens throw up to 80
kg of filth, and surprisingly, they pass stools even while sleeping.
- In the whole world, in just one second, about
one lakh twenty thousand (120000) chickens are killed for meat consumption.
- In Gainesville, Florida, you have to eat fried
chicken with your hands, it is illegal to eat any other way. Actually, it was a publicity measure to make this city famous as the "poultry
capital of the world".
- Just as dogs and cats respond by hearing their
names, also chickens know that they are being called by their
names. Not only do chickens know their own names, they also know the
names of their chicks.
- The record for laying the highest number of eggs in a day by a hen is 7 while the maximum number of eggs in a year is 371.
- There is wonderful body creativity in
chickens, if the hen does not want her children from any sexed chicken,
then she can also remove its sperm from her body. By doing this, she
stops the development of eggs inside her. No other animal can do
this.
- Chickens can transfer their knowledge to their
eggs while they are still in the stomach.
- There is only one passes path for a chicken to
excrete, breed, and lay eggs. But when she is about to lay an egg, her
intestinal tract is closed, so that her stool can never come with the egg.
- Avian Influenza is also known by the name of
the bird flu, is an infectious disease that makes hens seriously ill and most
of the time even death also. In the worst case of bird flu, 90 to
100% of the hens of any flock can die in just 48 hours.
- Chickens have a very good memory, they can
remember and recognize more than 100 faces.
- Chickens use 24 types of voices to
talk. Each voice has its own meaning, like with some voices they warn
their companions when the hunter comes, with some voices they tell their
mother that they are in trouble or feeling scared. They also tell the
scene they saw with their own eyes to their companions.
- If there is no rooster in the herd of
chickens, then the hen stops laying eggs and starts doing some work of the
rooster, such as making noise in the morning.
- Did you know that the number of bones in the
neck of a chicken is more than that of a giraffe? They do not have
teeth in their mouth, so they swallow their food whole. After it
enters the stomach, the food is crushed.
- The feathers of chickens are considered useless and are thrown away. But in 1964 in Buffalo, New York, he started giving a dish of chicken wings in a restaurant and named that dish Buffalo wings.
- Why do chickens always make noises early in the morning? Actually, there is an imaginary clock inside the chicken, from which they start making sounds at sunrise. But if the neighboring rooster starts making noise earlier, then the other roosters also starts screaming earlier than his usual time. The roosters shouting in this way in the morning is a way of showing their territory.
- Have you ever wondered why chicken eggs are eaten more than other birds? The reason behind this is that the chicken lays a lot of eggs so more eggs can be produced with only fewer chickens. The chicken needs lesser space to live than any other egg-laying bird. Another most important reason is that chicken does not feel hurt much when their eggs are taken, so it is easy to collect eggs.
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