Chicken Fun Facts | Horizon Acres

Chickens are ominvores, meaning that can eat plants and animals.
“Tidbitting” is a dance roosters make.
Cubalayas do not have spurs.
The Buckeye is the only American Class of chickens created by a woman, Mrs. Nettie Metcalf of Warren, Ohio.
The Dominique is recognized as America’s first chicken breed.
Chickens with larger wattle and combs are better suited to warmer environments and chickens with smaller wattles and combs are better suited to colder environments for two reasons: smaller wattles and combs are less susceptible to frost bite and larger wattles and combs dissipate heat better than smaller wattles and combs.
Chickens can travel up to 9 miles an hour.
Broodiness has been bred out of chickens over the years in the interest of egg production. A setting hen stops producing eggs.
Wyandottes were named after a tribe of Native Americans in up state New York and Ontario, Canada.
May 14^th is Dance Like a Chicken Day.
In Gainesville, Georgia it is illegal to eat chicken with anything other than your fingers.
Silkie chickens have 5 toes.
Silkie chickens have Fibromelanosis, which causes their flesh, bones and organs to be black to dark blue in color.
Chickens experience REM sleep.
There are more chickens in the world than any other type of bird.

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