• You can literally hypnotize a chicken by holding it and drawing a line in the dirt over and over. The chicken will stay still right there as long as you do this.
• According to National Geographic, scientists have settled the old dispute over which came first — the chicken or the egg. They say that reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. That seems to answer the question. The egg came first.
• Chimney’s used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them
• The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken which makes the phobia ‘Alektorophobia’ (Fear of chickens) slightly more plausible. [:D]
• In Gainesville, Georgia – the chicken capital of the world – it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork!
• If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.
• The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• There are more chickens than people in the world!

Ooooooh. Intrigued I am. *Wow* this is.