Contrary to what some may believe, it is true that chickens like most living creatures do have tongues. In fact a chicken’s tongue is oddly shaped like an elongated arrowhead, with the pointy bit located at the front, this is quite unique. A chicken’s tongue like many animals, and also including humans, is the same color as the rest of the inside of their mouth.

Despite what many used to believe before the 1950’s, chickens do have a sense of taste and even have been found to have thirty to seventy different taste buds. These taste buds are found on the base of their tongue and floor of the pharynx, however whether or not these taste buds are their only form of taste receptors is still up for debate. Little is known about a chicken’s taste buds and receptors even though we have been doing research about it and arguing about it for decades.

One thing that has been found is that chickens have been known to avoid saccharine and sweet flavors such as honey and strawberry, though nobody really knows why. They have also been found to only prefer sucrose and butter type flavors such as those found in popcorn. Since most research on the subject of a chicken’s tongue and their tastes have been conducted by adding flavoring to their drinking water, some have argued and considered the findings of these research experiments to be of little to no value. Humans have 9,000 taste receptors, and cows have 25,000. Due to this astounding fact, the chicken’s ability to taste would still be considered to be limited while others argue that some chickens lack the sense of taste at all and have often been referred to by people as being “chickens who are taste blind”.

Although they do not particularly like water, chickens are able to swim. They can float and paddle just like a duck and swim their way to safety. No need for the webbed feet, they are capable swimming creatures all the same. Many try to argue that there is no way that this is possible, but it has been proven time and again, that these animals can swim if necessary. They are buoyant and do not need to be taught to swim as we humans do, when placed in water they have that natural instinct to swim ashore.

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.

Contrary to what many people believe, chickens do not lay eggs every day. At least scientifically speaking, the ones who do lay eggs once a day, are not supposed to. In fact the frequency with which a chicken lays an egg is dependent on many factors. These factors include the chicken’s breed, lighting, temperature, environment and nutrition. Some chickens have been known to lay eggs every few days, even with optimum environmental conditions.

Basically the cold, hard and unfortunate truth is that because they are domesticated animals that humans have been breeding for their egg laying capacity and by always choosing the chickens who laid eggs more frequently we now have chickens who are able to lay one egg a day. It should be noted however, that this is not natural.

Rather, chickens that do lay food source eggs for us humans everyday do so because they have been genetically engineered and messed up by many humans who breed and raise them in factory farms. They have been modified by farmers to lay eggs quicker and more frequently than chickens who are not domesticated. Natural wild chickens do not lay the food source eggs.

It is true that in most cases (unless they are too heavy) that chickens are indeed able to fly. However it should be noted that they are only able to fly for short distances at a time, on average from about three to four feet. Chickens usually fly to flee from danger or a predator, in which case they may be seen flying vertically up to an object, or just horizontally to get out of the way. They have also been known to fly when not represented by danger, for instance simply in experimenting around their surroundings. Maybe they’re bored.

Chickens can also fly up to roosts as turkeys do, though some breeds of chickens have been known to have better flying ability compared to others. Chickens that weigh too much are not able to fly, due to the fact that they are simply too heavy. Also contrary to what some people may believe, chickens are not able to fly to migrate. They are not migratory birds and do not have this ability, also if you remember they are unable to fly for long distances. It would take a chicken forever to migrate even if they could.