Tag: Chicken

Broiler Chickens Broiler chickens are any breed that is intended specifically to be raised for meat. These birds grow much faster than their egg-laying counterparts so that you can use them for meat earlier than other breeds. They also develop more bodyweight on the same amount of food. What type of chicken is a meat […]

Chickens have a squat and rounded appearance. They stand less than 70 cm (27.6 inches) tall and weigh approximately 2.6 kg (5.7 pounds) on average. Males (called cocks or roosters) and females (hens) are known for their fleshy combs, lobed wattles hanging below the bill, and high-arched tails. What are 10 facts about chickens? 15 […]

For simplicity, you can place them into three general categories: Laying, meat-producing and dual-purpose breeds. Laying Breeds: These breeds are known for their egg-laying capacity. Meat Breeds: Dual-Purpose Breeds: Turkeys, Game Birds and Other Poultry. What are the classifications of a chicken? The chicken belongs to the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, the class Aves, […]

Chicken-eating really is everywhere today. It’s the most commonly eaten meat in America. Globally, it’s second behind pork, but it’s catching up fast. Within five years, humans will probably eat more chicken than any other meat. Why chicken should not be eaten? There is a High Risk of Human Exposure to Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Through the […]

Conclusion. It’s important for homesteaders and small chicken farmers to realize that chicken breed does indeed make a big difference in flavor and meat texture. It’s silly to raise your own meat if it’s only going to be as palatable as store-brought. Why do chickens taste different? Absolutely. “Chickens have very little in the way […]

About 60 percent of chicken genes correspond to a similar human gene. However, researchers uncovered more small sequence differences between corresponding pairs of chicken and human genes, which are 75 percent identical on average, than between rodent and human gene pairs, which are 88 percent identical on average. Are chickens natural or man made? Chickens […]

Oviparity is where fertilisation occurs internally and so the eggs laid by the female are zygotes (or newly developing embryos), often with important outer tissues added (for example, in a chicken egg, no part outside of the yolk originates with the zygote). Do chickens have zygotes? By the time the egg leaves the isthmus, the […]

Like other animals that walks on our earth nowadays, chickens are result of long evolution process of its ancestor. You may have heard about this, but indeed chickens are closely related to dinosaurs. Among other kind of birds, chickens, including turkeys, are the closest one. What is the closest bird to a chicken? The galliform […]

Farm-raised gators are often the ones that will taste like chicken. They are fed on fishmeal and oil and whatever catch that can be collected from the sea. Also, wild gators have a more gamey flavor to their meat, just as we experience with other hunted wild game. Why does gator taste like chicken? The […]

(Crocodilians are actually more closely related to birds and dinosaurs than they are to other reptiles, i.e., lizards, snakes, and turtles.) Is a chicken related to a reptile? In the Linnaean system, organisms are grouped by characteristics regardless of their ancestry. So a reptile is an animal that is ectothermic and has scales, and birds […]

Absolutely, chickens an hatch out a great variety of different eggs. If you have, what we called a cluck hen, one that was ready to sit on eggs. We hatched out duck, Turkey, chicken and goose eggs under our hens. How many turkey eggs can a hen hatch? A turkey hen lays one clutch of […]

Domestic fowl can be crossed, and produce fertile offspring, with silver pheasants, red junglefowl and green junglefowl. They have also produced hybrids with peafowl, chachalacas, capercaillie, grouse, quail, curassows, pheasants and guans. Can a chicken mate with a duck? Thanks to their dissimilar reproductive organs, it is nearly impossible for ducks and chickens to mate. […]

“People think it will taste like fish because it’s been in water. It’s more like pork, but you sort of know it’s been in water. It’s definitely not chicken.” But the meat of dinosaurs’ more simple evolutionary descendants – chickens and other small birds like pigeons and ground dwelling fowl – shouldn’t be discounted. Would […]

A Showgirl is a type of chicken that combines the features of two of the weirdest-looking chicken breeds, Silkies and Turkens! Silkies are small chickens whose feathers lack the barbicels that hold them into a feather shape, so they look (and feel) like they’re covered with fur rather than feathers. How do you get a […]

The breed is also reasonably cold hardy despite its lack of feathers. Naked Neck roosters carry a single comb, and the neck and head often become very bright red from increased sun exposure. This breed has approximately half the feathers of other chickens, making it resistant to hot weather and easier to pluck. Why do […]

Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller velociraptors. What dinosaur did the chicken evolve from? The chicken evolution lies in a group of dinosaurs called the theropods, which evolved into two categories some 230 million years ago: the Ceratosauria and […]

Turkeys are native to North America. They are a type of poultry that belong to the order Galliformes, along with chickens. There are two species of wild turkey: the North American Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the Central American Ocellated Turkey (M. ocellata). Is a turkey part of the chicken family? Turkeys and chickens are […]

The main difference between turkey and chicken is that turkey is bigger than chicken and needs more seasoning, more brine and a longer cooking time. Both turkey and chicken are forms of poultry are rich sources of animal proteins. They belong to the same general family of food and are considered white meat. Is there […]

Because sex-link chickens do not produce offspring that look and produce as well as they themselves do, they are not breeds. They simply do not fit the definition of a breed. Is a chicken a man made animal? Chickens are native to the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, but over the last approximately 8,000 years, […]

Heritage chickens can breed chicks true to the variety. They can produce naturally, so they’re also inclined to broodiness. Broodiness is when a hen needs to incubate and hatch their fertile eggs. Because they’re genetically stable, they can’t be hybrids. What does it mean if a chicken breeds true? A breed of poultry (or any […]