My family raised chickens. They are not as nice as you would think.
Wow.  Are they mean?  Do you have capon?.  I heard its illegal in some parts of the world
Our rooster attacked my brother when we were kids. Guess what we had for diner that night. I had never heard that they were illegal. Wonder why?
lol.  What was his name?  Its illegal because a capon is a castrated rooster.  Its suppose to improve the quality of the meat.
It basically turns them into hens. The hens keep laying eggs for him to fertilized but he is shooting blanks. No different than fixing your cat or dog.
Oh, ok. lol  How many chickens did your family have? There were 19 billion of them in 2011.
We had a couple dozen. We sold fresh eggs and veggies to the local shops. I would guess most of them are in China. They have huge production facilities.
The domesticated ones are from India.  They were imported to Lydia to Greece.  I never thought about chickens being world traverlers. lol
I remember several years ago the bird flu scare and new reports showing China facilities killing all their birds.
Intensive animal farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs. Intensive farming refers to animal husbandry, the keeping of livestock such as cattle, poultry, and fish at higher stocking densities than is usually the case with other forms of animal agriculture—a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses. The main products of this industry are meat, milk and eggs for human consumption. There are issues
response to death threats that are all over in his comment sections of some of his writings he wrote:
It seems couple of posts on this blog haven't sit well with Islamists and they took it personally, and we all know what happens then. I guess I have to clarify my position once again. I do not restrain myself because you think my thoughts are disrespectful to your religion, faith or whatever you believe in. I think the only valuable things that we, humans have are our free thoughts and reason