What are some of the most mind-blowing facts about chickens that few people actually know??

[featherhead007]

Chicken eggs can go unrefrigerated for weeks.

Mine prefer not to be refrigerated at all. Feathered lives matter!

 

[alinas2010]

I always thought it was neat that one eye is near sighted and one eye far sighted. I’ve heard people say one eye for searching the ground for food, one eye for searching the sky for predators. Somehow they both work together, though. That fascinates me! I always call it camera one, camera two; I love when they give me a one, a head turn, then the other, so curious.

 

[Love Donkeys]

Broody hens will talk softly to their chicks while they are still in the egg.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I always call it camera one, camera two;

Hahaha! I'm going to start saying this.

 

[alinas2010]

Hahaha! I'm going to start saying this.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

AHA! That movie was immediately what I thought of!

Tia Carrere is underrated, btw. I loved her in the show Relic Hunter.

 

[alinas2010]

AHA! That movie was immediately what I thought of!

Tia Carrere is underrated, btw. I loved her in the show Relic Hunter.

I think she is so pretty!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

There are more than 500 different breeds of chickens.

 

[BDutch]

Article with lots of cluckmazing facts:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/daily-cluckmazing-fact.75521/


The first:
Day 1 Did you know chickens were domesticated in Southern China 8,000 years ago in 6000 B.C.!!!

Day 2 Did you know chickens can dream and see in full color!!!

Day 3 Research suggests that chickens are cleverer than toddlers. Hens have exhibited mathematical reasoning, self-control and even structural engineering!!!
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The last:
CLUCKMAZING FACT 78 Submitted by SoftSilkie:
A single chick on average drops waste about every five minutes. Can't remember where I heard that, but I think I read it somewhere. Seems true enough to me!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Ayam Cemanis lay white eggs