Interesting Facts About Chickens

1. There are more chickens on Earth than people - 25 billion, outnumbering any other bird species.

2. Chickens can remember over 100 different human faces and even recall animal faces.

3. A hen turns her eggs about 50 times a day and can lay more than 300 eggs annually.

4. The record for the most eggs laid by a chicken in one day is 7, while in a year it's 371.

5. Chickens were domesticated in Southern China approximately 8,000 years ago.

6. The color of an egg depends on the hen's earlobes - red ears produce brown eggs and white ears produce white eggs.

7. As chickens age, they lay larger eggs but in fewer quantities.

8. Chickens can taste salt but not distinguish sweetness.

9. In Gainesville, Georgia, it's illegal to eat fried chicken with utensils - it must be eaten with bare hands.

10. A chicken needs about 1.5 kilograms of feed to lay a dozen eggs.

11. Every 0.05 seconds, 97 chickens are consumed worldwide.

12. The UK has significantly reduced salmonella cases by vaccinating chickens.

13. A rare breed of chicken from Indonesia is completely black due to hyperpigmentation, costing $2,500.

14. A "chicken gun" is used to test aircraft durability, shooting dead chickens at planes at takeoff/landing speeds.

15. Laetiporus, a wild mushroom, tastes similar to chicken and is known as "fried chicken mushroom".

16. South Korea has more fried chicken restaurants than there are worldwide McDonald's outlets.

17. Buffalo wings were initially unpopular until a restaurant grilled and named them after Buffalo, New York, where they were created in 1964.

18. The record for the most yolks in an egg is 9.

19. The heaviest chicken egg on record weighed over 300 grams and had two yolks.

20. Americans consume 8 billion chickens annually, with each American eating 80 pounds of chicken compared to 63 pounds of beef.

21. A chicken can run the length of a football field after its head is cut off before dropping dead.