Chicken

Morphology:

• Body length: 30-100 cm
• Weight: 220-600 g

Occurrence:

Bred all over the world.

Habitat:

Different types of breeding systems for chickens: large-format cage system, aviary system, and free-range system. They have a terrestrial lifestyle and fly poorly, only short distances.

Food:

Grain, Insects, Other invertebrates

Reproduction:

• Sexual maturity: 5-18 months (depending on the species)
• Breeding season: Almost all year round
• Gestation period: 2-4 weeks
• Number of offspring: up to 340 eggs

Species protection:

It is not an endangered species. It is not listed in the Red List of Threatened Species.

Interesting fact:

The domestication of chickens probably took place already in the 2nd millennium BC on the Indian Peninsula. Chickens were already bred in China in 1000 BC. In Poland, chickens were already bred in Biskupin in 500 BC. The chickens of that time had better developed wings, so they probably flew better.