![]() The chicken is then moving while actually being dead, but in the case of Miracle Mike, the farmer who tried to kill him aimed a bit high and accidentally left a bit of the brain that chickens keep at the back of their necks. The pressure from the axe triggers nerve endings in the neck, sending a message back to the muscles telling them to move, without the brain actually being involved. TRUE – Some chickens will indeed keep running after having their head chopped off. If you chop their heads off, chickens will keep running The color of the shell only depends on the breed of chicken it came from and will have no impact on taste or nutritional content. The color of the egg affects the nutritional contentįALSE – Despite what some egg producers have claimed during the years, brown eggs are not healthier than white ones, or vice versa. A chicken can’t taste sweetness or spiciness, but can tell saltiness, sourness and bitterness apart. Chickens have no taste budsįALSE – While it may seem like chickens will eat just about anything you put in front of them, they do have taste buds, and personal preferences. This is however not a natural behavior seen in the wild, but a result of a stressful environment with limited space in large egg or meat factories. UNDECIDED – You might have heard about cannibalism in poultry, and it does happen that chickens start pecking the flesh of other hens. Daylight intensity is also what tells roosters when to crow in the morning and when to go roost at night. Additionally, studies show that chickens use the sun to tell the time of day. TRUE– Like other birds, chickens use the magnetic fields of the earth to orientate themselves and navigate around their home environment. Chickens navigate through magnetic fields In fact, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. ![]() Worth a google! There are as many chickens as there are humans on earthįALSE – There are almost 4 times as many chickens as there are humans, more than 25 billion. ![]() TRUE – Due to a phenomena called bilateral gynandromorph there are chickens where one side of the body is male (large wattle, spur and muscular breast etc.) and the other side is female (duller plumage, smaller comb, slighter build etc). Chickens can be half male, half female – split down the middle Thanks to five light receptors in the eye (humans only have three), they can see many colors more vividly than us. Which of These Chicken Myths Are Actually True? Photo by Sarah Halliday on Unsplash Chickens are color blindįALSE – Chickens actually have superior color vision to humans. ![]()
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