Chicken
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The chicken (Gallus gallus, whiles G. gallus domesticus), aft kent as a teukie frae the teuk teuk soond it maks, is a caif foul. Evidence newlin foond mynts that domestication o the chicken wis unner wey in Vietnam ower 10,000 year syne. Afore this discovery, conventional wit haudit that the chicken wis domesticatit in Indie. A poullie is a young chicken for bylin in a pat.
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Chicken | |
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A cock (left) an hen (richt) | |
Conservation status | |
Domesticatit | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Order: | Galliformes |
Faimily: | Phasianidae |
Genus: | Gallus |
Species: | G. gallus |
Subspecies: | G. g. domesticus |
Trinomial name | |
Gallus gallus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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