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!
I wish I had the yard space to own chickens. They used to be known as the "bird that gives birth every day"! I guess that kind of makes sense!
We're moving to an acreage, so will have plenty of space.
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
stops as they cross the roads. The chickens have been featured on Oviedo T-shirts and coffee mugs and a poster commemorating one of Oviedo's yearly festivals, "A Taste of Oviedo." An image of a rooster is painted on all welcome signs for roads leading into Oviedo, and many residents have bumper stickers that say, "I brake for Oviedo's chickens".
Contrary to what some believe, there are no specific laws or statutes surrounding the chickens, neither for their protection nor for their removal -