50 Facts About Chickens That Will Ruffle Your Feathers!
A mother hen turns her eggs about 50 times per day, and can lay more than 300 eggs per year.
With around 10,000 species of birds, there’s almost nowhere on the planet that they can’t be found!
Do you have a favorite type of bird? Or do they just annoy you in the early morning? And why do roosters crow in the morning anyway? Let’s find out that, and more!
A mother hen turns her eggs about 50 times per day, and can lay more than 300 eggs per year.
During the Victorian period, robin skins were used as a bizarre ladies’ hat accessory.
Toucan’s take shelter in hollowed out trees usually created by Woodpeckers.
On the Caribbean island of St. Kitts lives a population of wild Green Vervet Monkeys - they are notorious alcoholics!
The cassowary bird is famed for attacking people, but most attacks happen when we stop feeding them!
In theory, melanistic lions could exist, but there have never been any lions of a jet black color found on Earth.
Did you know that the collective name for a group of foxes is known as a charm?
The Dodo is a flightless bird first discovered by Portuguese sailors moored in Mauritius in 1598 AD.
A jet plane over Nevada once struck a Mallard at an altitude of 21,000 feet.
Did you know that a male turkey is called a stag? The female is a hen, and their chicks are known as poult.
While we cannot see ultraviolet light, there are some animals that see UV light on a normal basis.
The irrational fear of flamingos is known as Phoenicopterus. 1 out of 300 people have this phobia.