Chickens Facts

In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

Mike the Headless Chicken lived for 18 months after a Colorado farmer swung an axe in 1945. The axe missed his jugular vein and left most of his brain stem and one ear intact. Farmer Lloyd Olsen kept him alive by feeding him with an eyedropper. Scientists at the University of Utah examined Mike and confirmed the story was real. Fruita, Colorado still holds a festival in his honor every May.

There's a mushroom that tastes like chicken and grows in the wild throughout much of the world.

Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs!

A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!

A 2010 British study found that a protein called OC-17, found only in chicken ovaries, is necessary to form chicken eggshells - adding scientific weight to the 'chicken first' argument in the ancient debate.

There’s a rare breed of chicken called Ayam Cemani that’s completely black. They have black plumage, legs, nails, beak, and even black meat, bones, and a black tongue!

There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.

Ma Yu Ching's Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China, established in 1153 AD during the Song Dynasty, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest restaurant still in operation.