• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    90%+ chickens are bred for food, I don’t think there’s all that many truly wild chickens out there anymore.

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      1 year ago

      There are probably some somewhere, but yeah not many. However the ones that are bred for food typically weigh more.

      Hell, if you let a meat chicken grow beyond its sell-by date, there’s a good chance it will develop so much muscle mass it cannot stand up anymore, and it will rot to death on the spot.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure they were domesticated from something (a South Asian jungle fowl, I believe) to the extent that they are no longer even the same species. So any “wild” chickens would just be feral escapees.