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SpeciesGalliformesPhasianidae
Birds

🐔Chicken

Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The chicken is the domesticated form of the red junglefowl, originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.

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253
Photos
5
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/83rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.75 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chicken

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.75 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.78 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.19 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.22 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
30 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.8 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Chicken yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGalliformes
  5. ›familyPhasianidae
  6. ›genusGallus
  7. ›speciesGallus gallus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  4. genusGallus
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderGamebirds · Galliformes
  12. genusGallus
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More about the Chicken

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Red Junglefowl — last shared an ancestor ≈ 0.0 million years ago.
In other languages
kura domowa (pl), pollo (it), poulet (fr), pollo (es), Huhn (de), دجاج (ar) … and 28 more languages
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Kruppert Cubalaya cropped20210619 USDA OC PSD 0248 Agriculture in the United States (United States Department of Agriculture) USDA images20210619 USDA OC PSD 0245 Agriculture in the United States (United States Department of Agriculture) USDA images
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