Chickens

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.

thumb|Cockfight in London, c. 1808 thumb|Colonel Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match|Mordaunt's cockfight in [[Lucknow, 1784–1786, by Johann Zoffany]] thumb|The wantilan, a Balinese pavilion that can be used for cockfighting Cockfighting is a blood sport involving domesticated roosters as the combatants. The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a "game", a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1634, after the term "cock of the game" used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock

part of animal husbandry

sign of the Chinese zodiac

thumb|Live capons in Hainan, China, displaying characteristic small head, comb and wattle|190x190px A capon (from , genitive ) is a male chicken that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality of its flesh for food, and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding.

common joke or riddle

thumb|Alectryomancy foretells a young woman's marriage in Christmastide Divination by Makovsky, c. 1905 Alectryomancy is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds, or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel pecking at grain (such as wheat) that the diviner has scattered on the ground. In ancient Rome, it was the responsibility of the pullarius to feed and keep the birds used. The observer may place grain in the shape of letters and thus discern a divinatory revelation by noting which letters the birds peck at, or the diviner may just interpret the pattern lef

large-diameter, compressed-air cannon

mixture of chicken's excretions, feed, feathers and bedding

rebellion in Poland

movable chicken coop without a floor, allowing grazing of pasture

comedy prop

breed of chicken

Small eyeglasses made for chickens

Hypnosis of chickens

feces of chickens used as an organic fertilizer, especially for soil low in nitrogen