On a previous occasion Science Daily Online I published an article about a curious variety of chicken, which was 100% black.Now we will talk a little about the origins of the chicken and how it dispersed throughout the world.
"In writing hen one"
In Around the day in eighty worlds the writer Argentine Julio Cortazar included a brief science fiction story, in which a chicken tells how, thanks to a NASA experiment, her sisters become intelligent and decide to take over the planet, even if they still do not control the syntax.
It is not something that should be completely disdained, if we consider that at this time there should be approximately thirteen billion chickens, roosters and chickens , which makes this species the bird more abundant s work the land.
Lineage and history
The Gallus gallus domesticus is a subspecies of the wild bird Gallus gallus , from the family of the Phasianidae , which inhabited Southeast Asia.The current roosters and chickens derive from the bankiva rooster ( G.gallus ) and the gray rooster ( G.sonneratii ), both from India, and their domestication occurred seven thousand years , in the Ganges.
It is likely that he has accessed Africa and Europe by following the silk route, put a leg for the first time in the Iberian Peninsula three thousand years ago years, in the company of the Phoenicians , and in the New World as a passenger and part of the logistics in the second voyage of Colon .In the case of America, it was first the chicken, which is also considered as the first European animal to step on this continent.
The Araucanian chicken
Although here it is also possible that these Colombian crew members have not arrived first, because there is a history that among the Mapuches , in Chile, there was a chicken with particular characteristics, which may well have arrived several centuries before, as a companion to Polynesian expeditions .
Who came first, the chicken or the egg?
If we look at numbers and statistics, it would undoubtedly be the egg, from which they are produced more than six hundred billion a year .
This bird, like its breeders, is omnivore and lives between five and ten years depending on which of the many races and varieties it belongs to.
Chicken: use and enjoyment manual
Although in some countries it can fulfill functions as a pet, especially when it is in the chick stage, it is mostly used as a egg and meat producer .Among its advantages is that it is fast growing, based on cheap food and its meat is digest more easily than red meat.
" Written by a chicken "
However, and not to forget that they outnumber us and that maybe we should think about it before sending them on spaceflight, remember the Cortazar mini-story:
With what happens is we exalting.Fastly from the possessed world we are hurray.It was a harmless seemingly rocket launched Canave ral americas Cabo by the from.Reasons were unknown by orbit of the deviation, and probably something when touching the earth invisible returned.It fell us in the country, and mutation blow we entered from.Quickly multiply learning from table we are, endowed very Literature for the history of us, chemistry less a bit, disaster now even sports, it does not matter but: it will be cosmos hens, damn it.
As you can see, we can tell Always with the literature to support our theories, ideas and problems.And if you liked the article, do not miss the one about the chickens without feathers, ready to cook.
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