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#Chicken #Animals described in 1758 #Birds kept as pets #Junglefowls #United States state birds

1 What role did Jed Brophy play in the movie Chicken?

2 In ________, the chicken was not normally used for sacrifices, perhaps because it was still considered an exotic animal.

3 Who played Dwight Serrento the movie Chicken?

4 Who played Will Tilfer the movie Chicken?

5 Who played Bryce Tilfer the movie Chicken?

6 What phylum does Chicken belong to?

7 The Roman author Columella gives advice on chicken breeding in his eighth book of his treatise on ________.

8 Asian ornamental varieties were imported into the United States and ________ in the late 1800s.

9 The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a ________ fowl.

10 What role did Martyn Sanderson play in the movie Chicken?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?
  • the Java (pictured), first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second oldest breed of chicken in the United States?
  • the Iowa Blue breed of chicken is not actually blue according to poultry standards?
  • the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy?
  • the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count, but in fact originated in Persia?
  • the colorful Sri Lanka Junglefowl is part of the junglefowl family from which our modern domestic chickens derive?
  • the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance?
  • the Delaware breed of chicken (chick pictured) was once the favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered?
  • the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
  • despite weighing little more than a pound (0.45 kg), the Dutch Bantam breed of chicken (rooster pictured) can lay more than 160 eggs in a year?
  • a chicken sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?
  • a Chicken sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?
  • it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken, but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
  • the endangered subspecies California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old?
  • the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
  • the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?
  • Martin Luther compared images of the Virgin of Mercy (example pictured) to "a hen with her chicks"?
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