Chickens are your everyday farm animal, but they are actually very interesting and intelligent creatures. There is a lot more to them than you think.

Info

Chickens are consumers, they are omnivores which means they eat plants and animals.

A chicken's average heght is 27.6 inches, and there average weight is 5.7 pounds.

A chickens diet is normaly a variety of fruits, vegtables, grain and bugs.

Chickens are found at farms, and backyards. Their ancestors (gallus gallus gallus) came from South Asia.

How the chickens contributed to the farm + how the chickens got energy

Chickens contributed to the farm by eating maggots which helped decrease the fly population. Chickens also got energy from the bad peaches and grain. The peaches got their energy from the sun.

Chickens were dying because of the coyotes until the farmers put Rosie (the chicken guardian dog) in charge of keeping the chickens safe. The coyotes didn't eat chickens anymore so they started eating the gophers. That was a good thing because the gophers were eating the cover crop and the roots of the fruit trees.

The chickens gave energy to the coyotes when the fences were not working and the coyotes dug under the fences to kill and eat the chickens.

6 fun facts about chickens