I think chickens are so cute! Can you believe there are more than 19 billion chickens on our planet?!
Wow. I had no idea there were that many.
It's pretty crazy! Some people keep chickens as pets, but they're mainly raised for their meat and eggs. 
I have a coworker that raises chickens for their eggs.  We're thinking about getting some!
the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III.
Terminology.
In the UK and Ireland, adult male chickens over the age of one year are primarily known as "cocks", whereas in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, they are more commonly called "roosters". Males less than a year old are "cockerels". Castrated roosters are called "capons" (surgical
Chicken
The chicken ("Gallus gallus domesticus") is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl ("Gallus gallus"). It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of more than 19 billion as of 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird or domesticated fowl. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and, less commonly, as pets. Originally raised for cockfighting