The chicken reached Egypt for purposes of cock fighting about 1400 BC, and became widely bred only in Ptolemaic Egypt ( about 300 BC ).

Due to the high levels of variation in the chicken genome, the industry has not yet reached biological limits to improved performance.

The song reached # 4 in the UK Singles Chart, and Burnett appeared dressed as a chicken on Top Of The Pops.

The traditional poultry farming view of the domestication of the chicken is stated in Encyclopædia Britannica ( 2007 ): " Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

The domestication of the chicken as stated in the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 2007 ): " Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in Asia, Africa, and Europe and is understandable since the belief by many archaeologists that " chickens were first domesticated not for eating but for cockfighting ", because of the " aggressive rooster's ability to fight ".

It is also served with cold chicken or hard-boiled eggs in France, the UK, Benelux, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

The word polecat ( with pole-from either the French poule " chicken " or puant " stinking "), which in Europe refers to the wild relatives of the ferret, has been attested in the New World to refer to the animal since the 1680s.

The dinners are even more suggestive of eastern and central Europe: chicken and pork paprikash, stuffed cabbage rolls, and sauerbraten.

Lentils are used to prepare an inexpensive and nutritious soup all over Europe and North and South America, sometimes combined with some form of chicken or pork.

Officially, the tax targeted items imported from Europe as approximating the value of lost American chicken sales to Europe.

Senator Fulbright and the Chicken Tax U. S. Poultry farming # Intensive chicken farming | intensive chicken farming led to the 1961 – 1964 " chicken war " with Europe.

With imports of inexpensive chicken from the U. S., chicken prices fell quickly and sharply across Europe, radically affecting European chicken consumption.

Officially, the tax targeted items imported from Europe as approximating the value of lost American chicken sales to Europe.

The traditional poultry farming view of the domestication of the chicken is stated in Encyclopædia Britannica ( 2007 ): " Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

* ( 500 BC )-Source for introduction of the domesticated chicken into Europe.

Schmaltz rendered from a chicken or goose was used by northwestern and eastern European Jews who were forbidden by kashrut ( Jewish dietary laws ) to fry their meats in butter or lard, the common forms of cooking fat in Europe, as butter, being derived from milk, cannot be used with meat, and lard is derived from pork, an unkosher meat.

In recent years, very virulent strains of IBDV ( vvIBDV ), causing severe mortality in chicken, have emerged in Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

In most regions of Romania, chicken soup known as ciorbă de pui consists of a clear and sour soup with strained chicken and vegetable broth, sometimes noodles have been added.

In Romania, mastícă is used as a wedding toast and is thought of as a good accompaniment to traditional chicken dishes.

In Turkey, bulgur is prepared ( using pilavlık bulgur ) as pilaf in chicken stock, with or without sauteed noodles, or cooked with tomatoes, onions and red pepper.

According to a company press release dated June 29, 2007, Popeyes is the second-largest " quick-service chicken restaurant group, measured by number of units ", with more than 1, 800 restaurants in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and over 21 countries worldwide including Turkey, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname, Mexico, Trinidad, Honduras, Vietnam, Panama, Peru, and Costa Rica.

Spike TV has broadcast several IFOCE-sanctioned competitive eating competitions as part of its " MLE Chowdown " series, including the St. Patrick's Day Chowdown in 2007 ( corned beef and cabbage ), the " Turkey Bowl " on Thanksgiving day in 2007 ( whole turkeys with an undercard cranberry sauce contest ), " Wedges ' n Wings " in 2007 ( chicken wings and potato wedges ), and " Ham ' n Eggs " during Super Bowl halftime in 2008.

In Renaissance Turkey, many crossroads saw vendors selling " fragrant bites of hot meat ", including chicken and lamb that had been spit roasted.

In Turkey and Cyprus, the plant is known as molohiya or molocha and is usually cooked into a kind of chicken stew.

In Greece, chicken soup is most commonly made in the avgolemono (" egg-lemon ") fashion, wherein beaten eggs mixed with lemon are added to a broth slowly so that the mixture heats up without curdling, also adding rice or pasta like kritharáki (" little barley ;" orzo ), resulting in a thicker texture ; it is a traditional remedy for colds, stomach aches, and hangovers.

In Russia and Ukraine, the dish is mostly prepared with beef, goose or chicken liver and thus is commonly known as печёночный паштет ( Russian, pechyonochniy pashtet ), however other meats also can be used.

One might well wonder why the `` public is always wrong '' and the question raised is about as awkward as the one concerned with the chicken and the egg.

Radiopasteurization has also been successful, and the shelf life of chicken can be extended to a month or more under refrigerated storage as compared with about 10 days for the untreated product.

Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.

Add enough warmed cream, seasoned to taste with onion juice, to about half cover the chicken breasts.

Among the more well-known clown stunts are: squirting flower ; the " too-many-clowns-coming-out-of-a-tiny-car " stunt ; doing just about anything with a rubber chicken, tripping over ones own feet ( or an air pocket or imaginary blemish in the floor ), or riding any number of ridiculous vehicles or " clown bikes ".

Kaye's daughter, Dena, tells a story her father related about being at a restaurant in China and trying to order chicken.

This involves local people making up ' balls ' of chicken wire filled with old newspaper, sticks, rags, and other dry flammable material up to a diameter of 2 feet, each attached to about 3 feet of wire, chain or nonflammable rope.

" To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began.

A free range or organic meat chicken will usually be slaughtered at about 14 weeks of age.

Examples of approximate cooking times using this method: potatoes, six minutes ( potatoes suitable for boiling or steaming will not break up if the pressure is left to drop slowly after timing ); a whole chicken, which easily fits into all but small pressure cookers, cooks in about twenty minutes.

Millions of chickens and eggs and long chicken houses In or about 1921, Reverend Secelar Claxton Ray took one hundred, day-old chicks to the Clay County Fair and put them

Increasingly, since the 1970s, restaurants were promoting an entree of the thicker first joint of the wing, calling them " chickies " or " drummies ", to people who wanted the flavor of traditional " southern fried chicken " in about ten minutes, versus the twenty minutes or more needed to properly fry the thicker breast, thigh, or drumstick portions of a chicken.

On 25 August 1538 there was much discussion about witches and sorceresses who poisoned chicken eggs in the nests, or poisoned milk and butter.

For example in France, the single largest beneficiary was the chicken processor Groupe Doux, at € 62. 8m, and was followed by about a dozen sugar manufacturers which together reaped more than € 103m.

is an Italian / Japanese cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphized cartoon chicken ; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens.

The Malleefowl ( Leipoa ocellata ) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken ( to which it is distantly related ).

The chicken meat is marinated for about two hours to make the meat tastier.

The fruit, maturing in autumn, is green, ellipsoid, and about the size of a chicken egg.

The value of a single turkey egg is estimated to be about US $ 3. 50 on the open market, substantially more than a carton of one dozen chicken eggs.

The eggs are about the same size and form as chicken eggs, but are more speckled with brown spots.