Is there such a thing as wild chickens??

[Maryallison]

Gritstar is right. I saw this episode on Animal plant where they are over run with chickens down there! can you imagine if you were not a chicken owner and a rooster flew up and started crowing on your window sill at 5 am!

They have a whole team of people dedicated to catching them. Like animal control, but these people are just for chickens!

 

[Judy]

Try a post in breeds and genetics; if anyone knows, they will be there.

 

[trunkman]

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Yes, Yes there are. They're living in my yard.

 

[bonder]

If you've ever read Laura Ingalls Wilder, "Little House on the Prairie", Laura talks about Pa going hunting for prairie chickens. I assume they were wild chickens. I haven't read the books in a long time, so maybe my memory is off...

 

[tuesdays chicks]

araucana were bred from wild birds.

 

[billfields]

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There are prairie chickens but they are whole different critter

...a type of grouse, not an actual chicken.

 

[trunkman]

This site is so educational! Thanks for all the responses!

 

[woodmort]

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Prairie "chickens" are a kind of grouse, not a true chicken. If there are any "wild" chickens they'd have to be in SE Asia. Remember turkeys are a N American bird that was domesticated by the Natives. Last I knew there was a flock of feral chickens in McDonough NY--a small town where most of the human population is feral.

 

[billfields]

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So there must have been some type of "wild" chicken that got domesticated in the Americas.

 

[tuesdays chicks]

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So there must have been some type of "wild" chicken that got domesticated in the Americas.

they were imported forgot where from though.