I have an unhealthy obsession with Chickens. I embarked on a journey through Google to uncover as many chickeny facts as I possibly could for your viewing pleasure. Well, Actually I'm down with the flu and I can't be damned to write anything remotely inspiring. Enjoy.
1 - Chickens can't swallow while upside down (No surprise there...) 2 - The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right leg (I Suppose Mcdonald's have a lot of one-legged chickens hopping about) 3 - Chickens are the only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead. (Thank God For That!) 4 - Chickens cannot sweat. (Eww..) 5 - Chicken eggs are the same colour of the mother hen's ears. (I Think it has it's fathers eyes...*sniff*) 6 - A chicken's egg takes 21 days to hatch. 7 - In some countries chicks half-formed in the egg are a great delicacy (And I thought My eating habits were weird...) 8 - Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine (I Want!) 9 - There are more chickens than people in the world. (It's a conspiracy!) 10 - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. (Before It crashed into a window) 11 - Chickens that lay brown eggs have red earlobes (How embarrassing!) 12 - In Norfolk, Virginia, it is unlawful for chickens to lay eggs before 8AM and after 4PM. (I wish work hours were like this...) 13 - A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds. (With or without feathers?) 14 - A chickens' heart beats 280-315 times a minute (It's cos we love chasing them, honestly) 15 - Chickens can have 4-5 toes on each foot (All the better to scratch with, my friend!) 16 - A rooster takes 18-20 breaths a minute, a hen 30-35 (We do the laying!) 17 - 8 Billion chickens are consumed every year (I'm hungry again...) 18 - The chicken was once considered a sacred animal symbolizing the sun. (I See NO Resemblance) 19 - Alektorophobia is the name given to "The Fear of Chickens". (Just reading that makes me shiver) 20 - I Own a rubber chicken, I just hate the fact that its inedible and filled with beans. Chickens. You gotta love 'em.
No chickens were harmed in the making of this post. Honestly.
posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 07.26.04 (8:40 am)
why dd the chicken cross the road?
posted by: VodkaB (reply)
post date: 07.26.04 (8:41 am)
