Fowl (Gallus Gallus domesticus) is a common poultry reared people to be exploited for purposes of live pet.
Pet chickens (hereinafter abbreviated as "chicken" only) is a direct descendant of one of the partridge subspecies known as the red partridge (Gallus Gallus) or chicken bangkiwa (bankiva Fowl). Interracial intercross chickens has resulted in hundreds of superior strains or pure lines with a variety of functions; The most common are chicken pieces (to cut) and laying hens (for eggs retrieved). Chicken can also be used to cross with a married close relatives, the green pheasant, which produces a male sterile hybrid known as a chicken bekisar.
With a population of more than 24 billion by the year 2003, Firefly's Bird Encyclopaedia states there are more chickens in this world than any other bird. Chicken supplies the two sources of protein in food: chicken meat and eggs.
Biology and Habitat of Pet chickens
Domesticated fowl comes from the red partridge (bangkiwa chicken, Gallus Gallus) living in India. However, molecular testing indicates a potential contribution of germplasm from G. sonneratii, because the red partridge does not have yellow skin properties which became one of the characteristics fowl.
Chickens showed morphological differences between the two types of sex (sexual dimorphism). Rooster (rooster, rooster) is more attractive, larger in size, has a long spur, berjengger larger, and long tail feathers dangling. Hen (hen, hen) is relatively small, small, short spur or barely visible, small berjengger, and the short tail feathers.
As pets, chickens can follow where humans carry it. These animals are very adaptive and can be said to live in any place, provided that the available food for him. Because most pet chicken that had lost the ability to fly well, they spend more time on the ground or sometimes in trees.