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1. The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl originally from Southeast Asia. It is a subspecies of the red junglefowl called Gallus gallus domesticus. 2. Roosters are adult male chickens, while hens are the females. Chickens were originally raised for fighting and ceremonies, but are now primarily farmed for their meat and eggs as a major global food source. 3. There are over 23 billion chickens in the world as of 2018, making them one of the most widespread and common domestic animals. Chickens have a long history of cultural references and origins across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas.

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1. The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl originally from Southeast Asia. It is a subspecies of the red junglefowl called Gallus gallus domesticus. 2. Roosters are adult male chickens, while hens are the females. Chickens were originally raised for fighting and ceremonies, but are now primarily farmed for their meat and eggs as a major global food source. 3. There are over 23 billion chickens in the world as of 2018, making them one of the most widespread and common domestic animals. Chickens have a long history of cultural references and origins across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas.

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Chicken

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For the culinary use of chickens, see Chicken as food. For other uses, see Chicken
(disambiguation) and Chooks (disambiguation).
"Cockadoodledoo" and "Cocka-doodle-doo" redirect here. For the nursery rhyme,
see Cock a doodle doo.

Chicken

A rooster (left) and hen (right) perching


on a roost

Conservation status
Domesticated
Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Gallus
Species: G. gallus
Subspecies: G. g. domesticus
Trinomial name
Gallus gallus domesticus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type
of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term
for an adult male bird. A younger male may be called a cockerel; a male that has
been castrated is a capon. The adult female bird is called a hen. "Chicken" was
originally a term only for an immature, or at least young, bird, but thanks to its usage
on restaurant menus has now become the most common term for the subspecies in
general, especially in American English. In older sources common fowl or domestic
fowl were typically used for this.
Originally raised for cockfighting or for special ceremonies, chickens were not kept
for food until the Hellenistic period (4th–2nd centuries BCE).[1][2] Humans now keep
chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and
as pets.
Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total
population of 23.7 billion as of 2018,[3] up from more than 19 billion in 2011.[4] There
are more chickens in the world than any other bird.[4] There are numerous cultural
references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature.
Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in South Asia, Southeast
Asia, and East Asia,[5] but the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East
and Africa originated from the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India, the chicken
spread to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the 5th century BCE.[6] Fowl
have been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BCE, with the "bird that gives
birth every day" having come from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia,
according to the annals of Thutmose III.[7][8][9]

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