Feral chicken
Feral chickens are derived from domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) who have returned to the wild. Like the red junglefowl (the closest wild relative of domestic chickens), feral chickens will roost in bushes in order to avoid predators at night.
A feral rooster on the island of Kauai
A family of feral chickens, Key West, Florida
Feral chickens typically form social groups composed of a dominant cockerel, several hens, and subordinate cocks. Sometimes the dominant cockerel is designated by a fight between cocks.[1]
Locations famous for feral chickens
- Bermuda Islands
- Niue
- Fair Oaks, California, United States
- Vieques, Puerto Rico, United States
- Yuba City, California, United States
- Fitzgerald, Georgia, United States
- Galston Gorge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Key West, Florida, United States
- Gotha, Florida, United States
- Miami, Florida, United States
- Kauai, Hawaii, United States
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- St. Augustine, Florida, United States
- San Juan Bautista, California, United States
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Chicken Roundabout (A143), Bungay, Suffolk, England, Great Britain[2]
- Port Chalmers, New Zealand
- Totton, Hampshire, England, Great Britain
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Oviedo, Florida, United States
- Ybor City, Florida, United States
- Yaffo, Israel
References
- Leonard, Marty L.; Zanette (1998). "Female mate choice and male behaviour in domestic fowl" (PDF). Animal Behaviour. 56 (5): 1099–1105. doi:10.1006/anbe.1998.0886. PMID 9819324. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-05-15. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- "Chicken Roundabout!". Archived from the original on 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
External links
- Chickens are Foragers, Not Fighters, By Karen Davis, PhD, United Poultry Concerns
- Chicken Roundabout!
- Chickens on White Oak Drive – HAIF
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