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anybody got any interesting and obscure facts about chickens? It's for a competetion at work (no prizes) and I'm just to lazy to look anything up..

zantic

They came before the egg.

They can build aeroplanes and talk. Saw it on that documentary thing that was on at the cinemas a bit ago.

SARS began in chickens who then passed it on to humans.

* 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.

* Chickens can walk/run up to 9 miles per hour.

* There are over 3 billion chickens in China.

* Alektorophobia is fear of chickens.

* The chicken is the closest living descendant to the Tyrannasaurus Rex.

* The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.

More facts: http://www.vfr.net/~tbruce/facts.html

Worm rugby is a favorite pass time of chickens that inhabit the great outdoors.

They get very embarrassed if they get ‘caught short’ as it were as they’re dashing back to a nest to lay an egg.

broodiness is being bred out of them in the pursuit of the almighty dollar....
BCNU - Crescent

Free range organic eggs from chickens purchased from teh supermarket have no ressembalance whatsoever to free range chicken eggs from chickens kept by a friend who lives round the corner.
Proper free range chickens kept in a friends back garden lay eggs anywhere and everywhere.
If you put an egg from a friends free range chickens, which you found in teh flower beds in their back garden into your coat pocket, and then bang this pocket against something, the egg will break and make a mess in your coat pocket.

Any body know the difference between Chickens and hens?
I do know that hens have teeth if thats any help

chickens cant fight because, well they are chicken!

Chickens are highly territorial, and they have a very strict pecking order.

pecking order thats a good one

Re: Chickens and hens-

Chicken is the name of the species, a hen is a female one.

'Chick chick chicken, lay a little egg for me'

Actually the egg came before the chicken... something to do with the chicken coming from an egg that was laid by something not quite a chicken

Like a Tyranasaurus Rex?
Must have got a shock when that hatched!

Chickens are quite alike pidgeons except they're different

Their a$$ is called the Pope's Nose.

Only when cooked, I think.


Very old joke:

Man in Restaurant: Waiter, what are today' specials?
Waiter: Today sir, we can offer you some slices of pickled tongue
MiR: Oh no, I couldn't eat anything that came out of an animal's mouth! Give me a boiled egg instead.

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http://www.b3ta.com/board/2631722

Sort of relevant. I think. Maybe not.

Stay ,
WD

Thanks guys. Saved me a lot of effort!

Any more?

Zantic