Bird
Chicken
Scientific name: Gallus gallus domesticus
This is a chicken. Chickens live on farms and lay eggs!
Quick facts
- Food
- Eats plants and meat
- Awake
- Active by day
- In the wild
- Domestic animal
- They live with people, on farms and in homes.
All about the Chicken
Chickens are farm birds that people have kept for thousands of years. They come from a wild bird of southern Asia called the red junglefowl. Chickens spend their days pecking the ground for seeds, grains and worms.
Fun facts
One star is easy, three stars are for big explorers.
- Easy
Chickens peck the ground to find seeds, grains and worms.
- Medium
A chick hatches about 21 days after its mother starts sitting on the egg.
- Medium
Before it hatches, a chick feeds on the yolk inside its egg.
- Hard
Chickens come from a wild bird of southern Asia called the red junglefowl.
- Hard
Chickens cannot taste sweet things, and most of them do not like salt.
Where does it live?
The Chicken lives with people, so you can find it in the coloured places and many more.
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Oceania
What does the Chicken eat?
- SeedsFavourite food
- Worms
- Insects
Play and learn
Games with this animal and its friends.
