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In the spirit of the 'all things chicken' mentality that I currently live in I thought now would be the time to lay (get it, get it?) some interesting chicken facts on my loyal readers. I think they are cool therefore you are forced to be subjected to them also. I wonder if you enjoy being a victim of such random whims. My guess would be no. Oh well somehow I am able to sleep at night:)

Fact - A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
Fact - The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
Fact - There seven distinctive types of combs on chickens: rose, strawberry, single, cushion, buttercup, pea, and V-shaped.
Fact - The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around.
Fact - The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine.
Fact - The record for laying the most eggs: seven in one day.
Fact - There are more chickens in the world than any other domesticated bird. More than one chicken for every human on the face of this earth.
Fact - The longest distance flown by any chicken is 301 1/2 feet. (as the crow flies)
Fact - Did you know that some breeds of chickens can lay colored eggs? Sure enough, the Ameraucana and Araucana can lay eggs colored in shades of green or blue, depending on the breed and it's ancestry.
Fact - In 1994, 73,866 million eggs were produced in the U.S.
Fact - China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most chickens with over 3,000,000,000 of them.
Fact - The term 'Chicken Pox' didn't come from people believing that they came from chickens, it came from the Old English term 'gican pox' - which means the itching pox.
Fact - Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
Fact - Laid head to claw, KFC chickens consumed worldwide would stretch some 275,094 miles. They would circle the Earth at the equator 11 times or stretch from the Earth approximately 50,094 miles past the moon.
Fact - There are approximately 450 million chickens in the United States.
Fact - Chickens make sounds with actual meaning. They give different alarm calls when threatened by different predators.
Fact - A cockerel will attack anything that he thinks will harm the hens ( that includes humans ). Their spurs (located at the back of their leg ) can cause a very painful puncture wound.
Fact - If a cockerel is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.
Fact - In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken capital of the world - it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork!
Fact - McDonald's in india doesn't serve beef -- only chicken, mutton and fish.
Fact - The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken.
Fact - The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
Fact - The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Fact - There are more chickens than people in the world.

there now don't you feel so much more enlightened?
I thought so