Definitions for chickens
chick·ens

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1. chickensnoun

   Plural form of chicken.

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1. chickens

   The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet. Humans now keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and as pets. Traditionally they were also bred for cockfighting, which is still practiced in some places. The chicken domesticated for its meat are Broilers and for its eggs are Layers. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion as of 2018, up from more than 19 billion in 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. There are numerous cultural references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature.Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origin theories of within South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, but the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originated from the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India, the chicken spread to the Eastern Mediterranean. They appear in Egypt in the mid-15th century BC, with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III. They are known in Greece from the 5th century BC.

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1. Chickens

   Chickens is a 1916 short silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

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1. Chickens

   Common name for the species Gallus gallus, the domestic fowl, in the family Phasianidae, order GALLIFORMES. It is descended from the red jungle fowl of SOUTHEAST ASIA.

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1. chickensnoun

   Plural noun of the word chicken.

   The chickens on the farm were so beautiful and loveable and the farmer said they are just pets as we love them so much, they are just like our family, visitors to the farm were educated about the beauty of animals, and to love them and treat them with dignity.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on June 23, 2016  

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How to pronounce chickens?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chickens in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chickens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of chickens in a Sentence

1. Josh Tetrick:

   You have lots of chickens in a facility and their throats have to be slit, you have blood and you have feathers and live animals bumping up against each other. Or,( with cultivated meat), you have a stainless steel vessel that is entirely contained without all that.

2. Teng Jianyi:

   It's healthy, just like raising pigs or chickens, it's fine.

3. James Hart Stern:

   You can call yourselves the mother chickens of turtles, for all I care, but that reputation you carry as NSM, which carries fear and revere, National Socialist Movement's gone.

4. Rajesh Varma:

   Did this rout make sense ? No, I don't see that. For the last couple of days I have been buying stocks, adding to those that I hold, just because the Shanghai index has dropped back to zero for the year, that doesn't mean that there won't be demand... I think a lot of short-term investors have been running around like headless chickens.

5. Aesop:

   Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

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