CHICKENS
Bird     -      Vertebrate      -       Herbivore
                                                                                         Chickens ...
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Male   .....................   Cockerel.  Cock.
                                  Rooster
Female   ..................  Hen.  Pullet
                                  (young hen)
Young   ...................   Chics
  • Eggs can be white, brown, green or blue, depending upon the breed of chicken
  • There is no nutritional or taste difference between differently coloured eggs
  • Like to eat insects
  • Don't have teeth
  • Swallow small bits of dirt to help break down their food
  • Is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus-Rex
  • Can fly, but not for long
  • Will lay larger eggs if the light in their cage is adjusted to make them think each day is 28 hours long
  • There are more chickens in the world than there are human beings
  • The longest recorded flight of a domestic chicken lasted 13 seconds
  • Chickens do not carry chickenpox
  • Lay an average of 228 eggs per annum 
  • Before chicks hatch, they communicate with each other - and with their mothers - through a system of sounds
  • Baby chickens use their right eye to look for food and their left eye to look out for predators
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  • The greatest number of yolks found in a single egg was nine
  • The largest number of eggs laid in one day was seven
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
  1. A brood of chickens
  2. A chattering of chicks
  3. A clutch of chicken's eggs
  4. A flock of chickens
  5. A peep of chickens
  6. A run of poultry
SIMILES
  1. As scarce as chicken's teeth
  2. As scarce as hen's teeth
  3. As tender as a chicken
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  1. Bet on a lame rooster
  2. Chicken out of (something)
  3. Chicken!
  4. Chicken in every pot
  5. Chicken feed
  6. Chicken hearted
  7. Chicken skin
  8. Cock-a-hoop
  9. Cock-eyed
  10. Cock sparrow
  11. Cock and bull story
  12. Don't count the chickens before they hatch
  13. Feeling like a rooster in a hen house
  14. Hen party
  15. Hen-pecked husband
  16. Like a chicken with its head cut off
  17. Like a hen with one chicken
  18. No spring chicken
  19. Mad as a wet hen
  20. Pecking order
  21. That cock won't fight
  22. The chickens come home to roost
  23. This beats cock-fighting
  24. To be cock of the walk
  25. To cock a snook at
  26. To live like fighting cocks
  27. To rule the roost
  28. To take a cock shot at
  29. What came first, the chicken or the egg?