A chicken’s heart beats at 280-315 times per minute compared with a typical human’s at 60-80 beats per minute

Very fresh eggs have a cloudy white caused by CO₂, which gradually escapes from the shell.

A cockerel’s courtship dance, when they make chattering noises and drop food, is called ‘tidbitting’?

Chickens are omnivores. They eat fruit, seeds, vegetation, insects and even mice and frogs

Chicks listen to their mother while still in the shell, so they understand her sounds when they hatch