Take one of your bantam bearded silkies, raised wild in the woods by it's mama. Catch it out of a tree one night when it's five or six months old and throw it in a pen. Toss it grain once a day for however long, another couple months or three years. One morning, walk in the pen and reach down...
No, we most definitely aren't talking about wild chickens, we are talking about domesticated chickens, chickens that have been domesticated for far longer, and to a higher degree than any other chickens. Intensively selected for ease of handling and close human contact. That is why gamefowl are...
One could only hope, as those traits must be present to have a chicken as a chicken was meant to be, noble, beautiful, intelligent enough to interact at a much higher level. Long lived with a fifteen to twenty year productive lifespan because it is not rife with genetic defects. Able to survive...