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Chickens

Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens
BBC News (25 February 2010)

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chicken
NOUN:		1 a : the common domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) especially when young; also : its flesh used as food — compare jungle fowl b : any of various birds or their young 2 : a young woman 3 a : coward b : any of various contests in which the participants risk personal safety in order to see which one will give up first 4 [short for chickenshit] slang : petty details 5 slang : a young male homosexual
INTRANSITIVE VERB:		to lose one's nerve —usually used with out <seemed to exhibit courage, manliness, and conviction when others chickened out — J. R. Seeley
ADJECTIVE:		1 a : scared b : timid, cowardly 2 slang a : insistent on petty details of duty or discipline b : petty, unimportant
ETYMOLOGY:		Etymology: Middle English chiken, from Old English cicen young chicken; akin to Old English cocc cock Date: 14th century
"chicken." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. Merriam-Webster Online. 26 February 2010 <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken>

Chicken
Urban chickens
Symbolic chickens
Tastes like chicken
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Chicken coop
Chicken fat
Feral chickens
List of chicken breeds
Orpington
Egg (food)
Battery cage
Wikimedia Commons—Category: chickens
Wikimedia Commons—Category:People with chickens

search chickens on JSTOR

In the news . . .

French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste -- BBCNews (28 March 2012)
[cf., Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households -- BBC News (26 February 2010)]

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Chicken

A rooster (left) and hen (right)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum::	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae

Genus:	Gallus
Species:	Gallus gallus
Subspecies:	Gallus gallus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Binomial name

Synonyms: Rooster (m), Hen (f)

Wikipedia

A Brief History of Buffalo Wings -- Claire Suddath, Time US (03 September 2009)
Araucana (chicken) [not to be confused with the Ameraucana and Easter Egger chickens] -- Wikipedia
Belgium offers chickens to waste-cutting households -- BBC News (26 February 2010)
Buff Orpington (chicken) -- Wikipedia
- Orpington (chicken)
- List of chicken breeds
Cheep Chic: Suburban Chickens -- Parade (14 November 2010)
Davis, Karen. Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry, Rev. Ed. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2007.
Henderson's Chicken Breed Chart -- John R. Henderson
Home Processing of Poultry -- University of Minnesota Extension
Raising Chickens -- Self Sufficient Life
Somerset knitters make jumpers for bald chickens -- BBC News (25 February 2010)
'The Ladies' of Bloomington are no longer welcome -- Mary Jane Smetanka, Star-Tribune (17 March 2010)
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
United Poultry Concerns
USDA Economic Research Service
- Animal Products
  - Poultry & Eggs
Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].

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Videos

CHICKENS by Martin Hudspeth -- BBC Video Nation (04 April 2003)
The Natural History of the Chicken -- PBS (60 min., 2001)

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St. Brigit of Ireland (Kildare),
Patroness of Chicken Farmers,
Wikipedia

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Buff Orpington rooster
Wikipedia

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