Chickens

• A female chicken less than a year old is called a "pullet."
• Some free-range chickens walk up to 14 hours a day.
• Ever wondered why chickens look kind of funny when they blink? The reason is that they close their eyes from the bottom up.
• In France a rooster doesn't say "cock-a-doodle-do." It says "co-co-ri-co." In Russia it says "koo-ka-reh-kooo." In Spain they say "co-co-rro-co-co."
• The only bird with a comb is the chicken.
• Chickens are nearsighted.
• Chickens can't see in the dark. (That's why they go to bed at dusk.)
• Chickens were domesticated before cats.
• General Robert E. Lee had a pet hen. She laid an egg under his cot every day. He loved that hen.