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Interesting Facts about Chickens

Chickens top the list among the top loved pets. 

How much do you know about chickens? Try the quiz, and here are additional facts about chickens.

1. In Gainesville, Florida, you have to eat fried chicken with your bare hands. Eating it by any other method is illegal. (thefactsite.com)

2. When a chicken gets its head cut off, it can run the length of a football field before dropping head. (thefactsite.com)

3. If chickens listen to classical music, they can lay bigger and heavier eggs. (thefactsite.com)

4. Research suggests that chickens are clever than toddlers. Hens have exhibited mathematical reasoning, self-control and even structural engineering. (peta.org.uk)

5. A chicken’s heartbeat is between 220-360 times per second.

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    Chickens can taste sweetness

    • Yes
    • No
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    Chickens are omnivores

    • Yes
    • No
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    They have three eyelids

    • Yes
    • No
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    They can swim

    • Yes
    • No
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    They have taste buds

    • Yes
    • No
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    Chickens can’t taste saltiness

    • Yes
    • No
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    Chickens can dream

    • Yes
    • No
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    When stressed, chickens shed off their feathers

    • Yes
    • No
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    Chickens can feel pain

    • Yes
    • No
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    They can dream in full colour

    • Yes
    • No
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    They can remember over 100 faces of animals and people

    • Yes
    • No

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Written by Benny

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  1. 9 out of 11 is good as a score. I would love to have chickens as pets. Mainly hens, brown shavers like my sister has.
    However, with cats in the neighbourhood and a low fence they can fly over I would have to have a container or cage.
    When you go away, caring for them is a problem.

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  2. 8 out of 11. These are very interesting facts about chicken! Now I’m going how good they are in math and let one solve a problem in the quadratic equation. LOL

    I forgot how fun answering a quiz is… I guess I’m to make one soon.

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  3. wow! 11 out of 11. but I had an advantage. My dad had chickens on his minifarm. I used to go out and house sit when they were off somewhere in the world.

    so i cared for the chickens all the time!

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