What are some of the most mind-blowing facts about chickens that few people actually know??

[Littlefoxhat]

Chickens hatch with every single egg they will ever lay in their lives ALREADY inside of their ovaries same as human females, actually.

 

[Hondo7]

The only thing that seems crazy to me is their relation to T-Rex.

I mean, if a chicken is well fed and relaxed it doesn't make a lot of sense, poor innocent little birdies suffering from false allegations. Cute little sweeties.

Then one day I went out to the juvenile pen with my lawn chair and some leftover Lees fried chicken (why don't they have the chain more places, it's the very best).
"Look little ones, it's pork!" I fibbed to them.
I started to pick apart the... pork... when suddenly I was mobbed. Tearing and flinging bits of flesh as fast as I could to keep them off of me. Soon a vortex started, a ring-around-the-rosie with me in my chair at the center. 15 carnivores ran past, vacuumed up every speck of flesh I could fling at them, and began to eye my fingers with eyes of darkness as they whipped past me, round and round.
A scene from Jurassic Park with the raptor trainer flashed in my mind. That's when I knew... once the bucket ran out, I was next on the menu. I had to get out of that chair. So I flung what remained of the flesh into the air and leaped away as fast as I could.
Later, I saw them out there sitting in my lawn chair. Eyeing me.
Now I know. I know what they really are.

LOL, hence our chicken paddock logo to the left here.

 

[GlicksChicks]

LOL, hence our chicken paddock logo to the left here.

Here is a sign I painted for my chicken coop.

 

[The Coop Crew]

When chickens “nap” they can rest half of their brain while the other half remains awake!

 

[BDutch]

Yup. I've described this to several people. Chickens can be more or less:

• friendly/flighty
• food-oriented
• quiet/noisy
• dominant
• active/athletic/lazy
• inquisitive

You forgot broody. This is a character flaw within some hens for sure. Wanting to hatch fake eggs, infertile eggs as wel as fertilised ones. Or other poultry eggs.
The worst even want to hatch stardust.
Being broody sometimes comes with nasty sounds, pecking and moaning (asking me to open the up the broody compartiment (usually called nestbox).

And someone suggested they would hatch snake eggs too if someone would give it to the broody.

The broody types lay an egg every day until they sit tight and then stop laying for many weeks to come.

 

[BDutch]

I was surprised to read that a chicken's one eye watches out for predators overhead, while the other eye mostly is used pecking for food! (Chickens are so fascinating, so as a retired teacher, I wrote a children's book about them, "Chelsie Chicken's Choice")

Yes + they have two eyelids on each eye. One normal like ours and underneath one to see through like a curtain. It to protect their eyes, e.g. while they are dust-bathing.

 

[BDutch]

Statistically the hatch rate of male to female is 50/50 and the hen determines the sex of offspring.

The hen is involved in the sex. She can not control or decide whether the egg is male of female on purpose. Like a man (human) can not control wether his offspring wil be a boy or a girl.

 

[Love Donkeys]

What two domesticated livestock you can eat and they can eat you??



Hogs and Chickens!

 

[igorsMistress]

The hen is involved in the sex. She can not control or decide whether the egg is male of female on purpose. Like a man (human) can not control wether his offspring wil be a boy or a girl.

I didn’t say the hen could do any of those things. In birds it is the hen that determines the sex of the embryo rather than the male, that’s all I said.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

There is a chicken named Gigoo that is a millionaire.
There is a chicken who won $12,000 at a show.
There is a chicken who set a World Record for the longest flight made by a chicken.
A chicken can eat a live snake whole.