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Gallus gallus domesticus The Mericanel della Brianza is a breed of small chicken or bantam from Lombardy , in northern Italy. It takes its name from the Brianza , an area to the north-east of Milan , and from mericanell , a Lombard diminutive of merican "American". [ 1 ]
Gallus gallus domesticus The Leghorn , [ a ] Italian : Livorno or Livornese , is a breed of chicken originating in Tuscany , in central Italy. Birds were first exported to North America in 1828 from the Tuscan port city of Livorno , [ 6 ] on the western coast of Italy.
Breed broiler is any chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) that is bred and raised specifically for meat production. [1] Most commercial broilers reach slaughter weight between four [2] and six weeks of age, although slower growing breeds reach slaughter weight at approximately 14 weeks of age. Typical broilers have white feathers and yellowish skin.
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets [1] or for cockfighting.
Galliformes / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often reared by humans for their meat and eggs, or hunted as game birds.
Gallus gallus domesticus The Barbu d'Anvers , Dutch : Antwerpse baardkriel , is a breed of bantam chicken from Belgium . It is a true bantam, and has no full-sized counterpart; males weigh about 700 grams and hens about 600 g.
Chicken and duck eggs on sale in Hong Kong. Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat in the world, accounting for about 30% of total meat production worldwide compared to pork at 38%. Sixteen billion birds are raised annually for consumption, more than half of these in industrialised, factory-like production units. [58]
Junglefowl are the only four living species of bird from the genus Gallus in the bird order Galliformes, and occur in parts of South and Southeast Asia.One of the species in this genus, the red junglefowl, is of historical importance as the direct ancestor of the domestic chicken, although the grey junglefowl, Sri Lankan junglefowl and green junglefowl are likely to have also been involved. [2]