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unusual facts about Chickens



1948 Lady Caycay earthquake

Caycay (Hil) is the local term to describe the scratches on the ground similar to those made by chickens.

Aislinn O'Neill

Her work in film and television includes the 2013 feature film Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart, the 2009 TV serial adaptation of Emma, TV series Law & Order: UK, TV series Chickens starring Simon Bird and BBC TV medical series Holby City.

Arctic Boosh

In 1999, after having a residency at The Hen and Chickens Theatre in Islington, London, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and Rich Fulcher returned to the Edinburgh Festival with a new show, Arctic Boosh, which sold out every night and was nominated for the Perrier Award.

Ascaridia

Clinical signs are more common in young chickens less than three months old as older chicken develop some resistance to infection.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge

Many of the Attwater's Prairie Chickens in the refuge are hatched at captive breeding programs at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Texas A&M University, SeaWorld San Antonio, Abilene Zoo, Caldwell Zoo, Houston Zoo and San Antonio Zoo.

Battle of Drepana

If the chickens accepted the offered grain, then the Roman gods would be favourable to the battle.

BBQ Chickens

BBQ Chickens (often stylized as BBQ CHICKENS) is a Japanese hardcore punk band, created in 2000 by former Hi-Standard member Ken Yokoyama.

Charles Chamberlain Hurst

Bateson and Hurst collaborated in the battle against the biometricians Karl Pearson and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, with Hurst generating much data from experimental crosses of different plant varieties and animal color variants, including chickens, horses, and man.

Chew on This

It is basically, as the title says, "everything you don't want to know about fast food," such as the way chickens die at a slaughterhouse, how meatpacking has become more dangerous than back in the times of the Chicago Stock Yards, cutting approximately 400 cattle an hour, and how the average child sees approximately 40,000 advertisements a year, half of which are for fast food, candy, breakfast cereals, and soda.

Chicken Truck

The song features Anderson (in first person narration) discussing an experience of getting stuck behind a Georgia truck hauling a load of chickens (Georgia is a major poultry-producing state), on Alabama State Route 65 (a winding, 2-lane highway in Jackson County in the northeast corner of Alabama) heading to Tennessee in mid-July.

David Paul West

Other stage work includes Axel in Woody Allen's play Don’t Drink The Water, David in Matt Ian Kelly's However Do You Want Me at the Hen and Chickens (City Lights Theatre Company, 2004), and Kevin in You Couldn't Make It Up at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and the New End Theatre, Hampstead.

Eskimos and Egypt

Cundall left the band as they moved more into production (producing mixes for Moby, Sparks, Rammstein, The Tamperer, and produced and played instruments on 'Cruise control' an Australian and New Zealand number 1 single by New Zealand band The Headless Chickens.

Feral chicken

Like the Red Junglefowl (the closest wild relative of domestic chickens), feral chickens will take flight and roost in tall trees and bushes in order to avoid predators at night.

Frank Perdue

Perdue Farms developed a specialized chicken-feed that included marigold blossoms, which imparted a characteristic golden yellow hue to the skins of his chickens.

Geek show

In the 1998 Simpsons episode "Bart Carny", Homer and Bart are asked to perform in a geek show to pay off a debt: "You just bite the heads off the chickens and take a bow".

Greikoc

Farming is mainly primitive; fields are used to cultivate plants like wheat, corn or to collect hay, while pastures are used to raise and feed animals like cows, sheeps, chickens, etc.

Grok

In the book The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006), author Michael Pollan critiques a farm raising organic chickens with unused doors to pastures, writing, "Rosie the organic free range chicken doesn't really grok the whole free-range concept."

Hearing Health Foundation

In the late 1980s, both Dr. Edwin Rubel (then at the University of Virginia and now at the University of Washington) and Dr. Douglas Cotanche (then at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Harvard School of Public Policy) discovered that even after chickens hair cells had been deliberately destroyed in their labs, the cells grew back.

Hollywood Freeway chickens

By 1976, the flock included about 50 of the chickens, described as Rhode Island Reds.

The Hollywood Freeway chickens are a colony of feral chickens that live under the Vineland Avenue off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) in Los Angeles, California.

Ida A. Bengtson

She was given a medal by the American Typhus Commission in 1947, but her most significant scientific achievement was identifying an organism called Clostridium botulinum which causes a paralytic disease in chickens.

Influenza A virus subtype H7N2

The owners of the Conwy farm bought 15 Rhode Island Red chickens two weeks prior but all died from H7N2.

James Dannaldson

Dannaldson’s most primitive adventure occurred on Marajó Island, at the mouth of the Amazon, where the movie company spent four weeks, ran out of imported food and had to subsist for five days on moldy doughnuts filled with small worms and on chickens which, Dannaldson said, seemed to be 90 per cent vulture.

John Harmon Charles Bonté

Lincoln Steffens, in his autobiography, reports a humorous incident when he and his fraternity brothers were invited to the Bonté house to be fed some chickens that they didn't quite steal from the Bonté henhouse.

La morte ha fatto l'uovo

Married couple Anna (Gina Lollobrigida) and Marco (Jean-Louis Trintignant) run a hi-tech automated poultry farm, breeding boneless chickens.

Manx Rumpy

On realizing that that these bantams live without tail feathers to escape foxes, Kent Poultry Club chairman Dudley Mallett gave the tiny chickens the name Rumpless Game Bantams.

Mother Carey

Storm petrels (thought by sailors to be the souls of dead seamen) are called Mother Carey's Chickens.

Odendaalsrus

Odendaalsrus celebrated its 100th year anniversary in 2012, it is a town located on the Goldfields close to a couple of mines, and a large Harcos farm producing chickens and eggs.

Old Cowtown Museum

The museum also contains a number of live animals, such as Percheron horses, a Longhorn steer and chickens.

Preston Plucknett

The village is included in The Meaning of Liff (defined as "a very large string bag made of thin strong cord into which feathers from freshly killed ducks and chickens were stuffed, from Preston in Lancashire".

Private cancellation

An example of this is the Chickens Ville, Michigan private cancellation, applied to mail carried although Chickens Ville Location though it does not have a post office.

San Fabiano

When Count Giuseppe and Countess Giovanna Fiorentini bought the San Fabiano farm estate, there were some 300 people farming the land, producing 180,000 liters of wine yearly, breeding Chianina cows, producing meat for the local specialty, the Fiorentina steak, pigs, pheasants and chickens.

Spherical cow

In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, in Season 1 Episode 9, Leonard Hofstadter cited this joke with slight variation (as "spherical chickens in a vacuum").

Stan Bowles

Bowles responded to Docherty's plea of "You can trust me, Stan" with "I'd rather trust my chickens with Colonel Sanders".

Tales from the Golden Age

He brings her the eggs laid overnight by the chickens in his truck, but the two of them realise with Easter coming up, it would be more profitable to sell them on to the general public instead.

The Egg and I

The defense produced evidence that the Bishop family had actually been trying to profit from the fame the book and movie had brought them, including testimony that son Walter Bishop had had his father Albert appear onstage at his Belfair, Washington, dance hall with chickens under his arm, introducing him as "Pa Kettle." On February 10, 1951, the jury decided in favor of the defendants.

The Little Jerry

After New York Mets reliever Frank Francisco made comments about the New York Yankees being "chickens", Francisco's teammate Tim Byrdak proceeded to buy an actual chicken and act like the Yankees sent it to the Mets clubhouse.

The Perfect Game

The film scenes in Monterrey, which is the leading industrial center, one of the largest Mexican cities for over 100 years and a major center for science and research in Mexico, depicted the city as a two-burro village where the children played ball in the dirt choked streets with pigs and chickens serving as bases.

Todd General Store

Customers would trade chickens, roots and herbs and other items of value for merchandise or receive "W.G. Cook" tokens that were only redeemable at this store.

VMM-263

During the nine-month deployment as part of the 24th MEU in 2002-2003, the Thunder Chickens, as they were then known, flew an unprecedented 9568 hours and participated in Operation Enduring Freedom in the Horn of Africa, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in and around Baghdad, Tikrit, and Al Kut, Iraq.


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