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Are Chickens Mammals or Birds?

Chickens are birds, which are a different group of vertebrates from mammals. Birds lay eggs, while most mammals give birth to live young and nurse them with their mammary glands. The only exceptions to this are the platypus and echidna, which are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.

In order for an animal to be classified as a mammal it must have hair, as well as fat glands and sweat glands. Female mammals have mammary glands. Mammals give birth to live young and nurse their young. All mammals are vertebrates, and also have several types of teeth.

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  1. Eliot Jan-Smith says

    March 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    You are wrong chickens are mammals they have milk and everything

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    • Ashtyn owens says

      November 10, 2015 at 1:17 pm

      Ha-ha I have chickens and they do not have milk

      Reply
    • Steven R. says

      April 25, 2017 at 11:19 am

      you are wrong! chickens probably have milk in their stomachs because they drank it (:

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      • Alexie says

        November 6, 2017 at 11:33 am

        But chickens lay eggs and have feathers

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    • Milo says

      July 2, 2017 at 9:43 am

      Sorry to burst your bubble Elliot but chickens do not have milk

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    • LINDSEY says

      July 21, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      what the hell, please tell me you have no had offspring! chicken do not produce milk on any way or form!

      Reply
  2. Elijah K Barzeh says

    October 16, 2015 at 2:01 am

    chickens are not mammals, they are Fair away from mammals. Chickens are birds. Mammals form the most advanced class of animals due to their highly developed brain.
    Chickens has feathers while mammals has fur or hair.

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    • Anon says

      August 18, 2017 at 9:59 am

      Birds are a species. Mammals do not count as a species

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  3. Dennis says

    January 20, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    Eliot all i can say is your dumb

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    • DennisHater says

      June 15, 2016 at 4:12 am

      Dennis if you’re gonna insult someone’s intelligence use “you’re” correctly

      Reply
      • curry says

        April 30, 2017 at 12:22 am

        thats a good one

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  4. Squeege says

    November 7, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Your all wrong they are actually reptiles

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  5. SoundtheTRUMPet says

    November 20, 2016 at 4:41 pm

    Dennis is a reptile

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    • Dennisthechicken says

      March 17, 2017 at 12:51 am

      Dennis is a chicken…. so is it a reptile, fish, amphibian, or mammal?

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    • IdiotQueston says

      May 5, 2017 at 5:56 am

      they are not mammals you fool

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  6. Kamal says

    September 18, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Chickens are birds anD that’s that

    Reply
  7. DIDAM PETER says

    September 23, 2017 at 6:47 am

    U GUYS ARE CONFUSING ME I WANT TO KNOW IF REALY CHICKENS ARE ANIMALS

    Reply

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