Chicken Facts!

[chickenlover50010]

Chickens do have personalities, no matter what others may think!! (now just explain that to my dad...)

 

[FlashPointFarm]

Different breeds of chickens lay different colors of eggs.

White earlobed chickens lay white eggs.

 

[OlliOlliOlli]

I have a chicken that answers to her name

They make great bedmates

They talk to their babies through the eggshell before they are born (a fact on the PETA website!)

 

[Pampered Hen]

Chicken as bedmates? I thought that was the cat's job...

Chickens can recognize up to 100 other chickens and form complex social structures.

Chickens have 30 different vocalizations.

Chickens cognitive abilities are far greater than once thought: "Chickens comprehend cause-and-effect relationships and understand that objects still exist even after they are hidden from view" http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp

 

[chickenfever]

Brown and green eggs are not more nutritious than white eggs.

I hear this misconception all the time from people who buy my eggs.

 

[BawkinOnTheBench]

How about the fact that selective breeding has more than tripled egg productivity in the last hundred years. According to wikipedia, in 1900 the average egg hen produced about 83 eggs a year; as of 2000 the average is over 300.

 

[chickenfever]

Quote:
Could this be in part to better nutrition as well?

 

[PacsMan]

I have some interesting egg facts on my BYC page....