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The Chicken
A chicken (''Gallus domesticus'') is a type of domesticated bird. Chicken, chickens, or the chicken may also refer to: * Chicken (food) Film and television * ''Chicken'' (2001 film), a 2001 Irish short film * ''Chicken'' (2015 film), a British drama film directed by Joe Stephenson * ''Chickens'' (1916 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy * ''Chickens'' (1921 film), an American silent comedy drama film * ''The Chicken'' (film), a 1965 short comedy film directed by Claude Berri * ''Chickens'' (TV series), a UK TV series starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas * Chicken (''Family Guy''), a recurring character in the American TV series ''Family Guy'' * One of the titular characters in the TV series '' Cow and Chicken'' * "Chickens" (''BoJack Horseman''), a 2015 episode Music * ''Chicken'' (EP), Los Angeles rock band Ednaswap's only EP Songs * "Chicken" (The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster song), 2003 * "The Chicken" (music), a jazz tune composed by Pee Wee Ellis and made fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet. Humans now keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and as pets. Traditionally they were also bred for cockfighting, which is still practiced in some places. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion , up from more than 19 billion in 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. There are numerous cultural references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature. Genetic studies have pointed to mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
