Yellow 430 Broiler Chicks

The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Recent genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in the southeast, east, and south asia, but with the clade found in the americas, europe, the middle east and africa originating in the indian subcontinent. From india, the domesticated chicken was imported to lydia in western asia minor, and to greece by the fifth-century bc. The traditional poultry farming view of the domestication of the chicken is stated in encyclopA dia britannica 2007 that humans first domesticated chickens of indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in asia, africa, and europe. Very little formal attention was given to egg or meat production. A view that is supported by many archeologists.