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On this
picture you can see a chicken and her chicks walking around and
looking for some food. A chick is the little of a chicken. The
chicken is considered as the most domesticated bird in the
world. It is said that it the descendant of the Indian and south
east Asian Red Junglefowl. In 2003 the Firefly Encyclopedia of
Birds said that the population of these birds was over twenty
four billion. Chickens are farmed for their meat and eggs.
Farmed chickens are usually fed from commercial food which
includes grains and protein. But they also search for little
insects, seed and larvae in the ground. The domesticated
chickens usually are able to fly long distances. There are
countries as where chickens are kept as pets. In New Zealand as
in many other countries chickens are farmed for their meat and
their eggs. But chickens have also different sort of diseases as
one well known the Avian influenza others are, Blackhead,
Aspergillosis, Coccidiosis, Colds, Egg bound, Botulism, Fowl
Cholera, Fowl Typhoid, Fowl pox and Erysipelas. |
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