Chicken City

There are four cities in the United States that have the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.

Chicken Population

There are more chickens on Earth than there are humans.

Chicken Talk

Chicken language has real meanings. The birds give different alarm calls depending on which type of predator is threatening them.

One Big Egg

The largest ever recorded chicken egg weighed nearly 12 ounces, and measured 12.25 inches around.

Run Chicken Run

Chicken are pretty fast. The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour when it wants to.

Chicken and Dog Friends

http://www.weather.com/video/2-legged-dogs-unlikely-best-friend-44775?

Rooster Crowing

Centipede vs Chicken

Laughing Rooster

259 eggs

The average hen lays 259 eggs a year!

182 Eggs

182 eggs consumed per person each year on average

Egg Timer

Hens start clucking to the eggs a few days before hatching, making it more likely that they will all hatch at approximately the same time.

Best in the Carton

Eggs dry out more quickly in your refrigerator's egg rack - best to leave them in the carton.

Spinning Eggs

Can't remember which eggs you cooked? Spin them.  If an egg spins quickly, it is hard-boiled, if it spins slowly and wobbles, it's raw.

Thinnest Feathers

"Go away, boy! or I'll spank you where the feathers are the thinnest"
- Foghorn J Leghorn

Egg Strength

An egg standing on its end can bear up to two hundred pounds. (record set by the Ontario Science Centre)

Outnumbered

It is estimated that there are four chickens to every human on the planet.

Chicken House

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
 - Frank Lloyd Wright

Chicken Lobes and Eggs

Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs.

Chicken DNA

DNA evidence suggest chickens are the closest living relatives to the Tyrannosaurus Rex