Chickens - Fowl demons from hell..

I was watching an episode of Survivor recently. One of the teams had won a challenge where the reward was three chickens - two hens and a rooster.   There was a debate within camp as to whether to eat one of the chickens.   These brain surgeons then went and killed one of the hens!!!

My wife and I were stunned.  Did they not know the difference?  Did they think they needed to keep one rooster and one hen so that it continued laying eggs?  Even if you gave them the benefit of the doubt that pperhaps the hen's weren't laying anyway, it would be worth waiting another day or so.  There really is no good reason to eat the hen first before the rooster.

We settled on the idea that these city folk knew nothing of poultry ways.  So here are 5 totally true but little known facts about chickens..   Remember these as they are sure to come up at your next trivia night, or when your friend phones you from 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'.

Factoid 1.
The joke about the chicken crossing the road is actually very cruel.  Chickens have a fear of roads called Bitumanphobia.  This debilitating mental condition prevents them from crossing streets, highways, lane ways, but strangely not avenues or crescents.   One can get their chicken treated, which usually involves electrotherapy - but the costs are pretty high, and your chicken ends up smelling like cooked chook.

Factoid 2.
A chicken can lay up to 6 eggs a day, but chooses not to.  If you can somehow entice the chicken through bribery or fear, you can get an egg every 4 hours.  Also, as the speed of egg laying increases, the egg shape looks more like a torpedo than an oval.

Factoid 3.
The Birmingham Brown is the largest chicken on earth.  Fully grown, it the equivalent size and weight as the 2004 Mini Clubman.   This is why the 2004 Mini Clubman is often affectionately referred to as the Chooks Ass.

Factoid 4. 
Chicken actually tastes allot like chicken.  More so than nearly every other food except satay octopus.. obviously.

Factoid 5. 
Chickens sleep with one eye open.  Don't ever turn your back on a chicken because you think it's asleep.  That is exactly what they want you to think.  You've been warned.