Chicken Don’t Ruffle My Feathers I Will Put You In The Trunk Shirt

However, the Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus or Gallus bankiva) is the most commonly found wild species in the world today and is considered the main ancestor of the domestic chicken. The chicken belongs to the genus Gallus of the family Phasianidae. Domestic chickens are simply classified as Gallus domesticus.The sport of cockfighting had tremendous influence not only in the domestication of the chicken but also on the distribution of fowl throughout the world. After centuries of selection and breeding for numerous extremes, chickens now exist in many colors, sizes and shapes. There are more than 350 combinations of physical features known today. In 1873, the American Poultry Association was organized for the purposes of adopting standards of excellence and establishing a way of classifying the various breedsAlthough the purebred poultry industry served as the foundation for the development of the commercial industry, the two industries soon developed very different types of domestic fowl. While the purebred exhibition industry continued to select and breed fowl for standard conformations and plumage colors, the commercial industry developed specialized hybrids for meat and egg production. Today, the two industries are very different: The purebred fowl of today are basically the same as they were 100 years ago and are mainly raised as a hobby; whereas, the commercial poultry industry has developed into a science, which produces highly nutritious meat and eggs with extreme efficiencccessibility NavigationPrimary Navigation ContentSUBSCRIBE RENEW GIVE A GIFT

Chicken Don’t Ruffle My Feathers I Will Put You In The Trunk Shirt

SEARCSMARTNEWS HISTORY SCIENCE INGENUITY ARTS & CULTURE TRAVEL AT THE SMITHSONIAN PHOTOS VIDEO GAMES SUBSCRIBE SHOP Smithsonian MagazineSUBSCRIBE SMARTNEWS HISTORY SCIENCE INGENUITY ARTS & CULTURE TRAVEL AT THE SMITHSONIAN SHOP ARCHAEOLOGY U.S. HISTORY WORLD HISTORY VIDEO NEWSLETTERHow the Chicken Conquered the WorldThe epic begins 10,000 years ago in an Asian jungle and ends today in kitchens all over the worldChicken reigns in the 21st century.Chicken reigns in the 21st century. (Tim O’Brien)By Andrew Lawler , Jerry AdlerMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | SUBSCRIBEJUNE 2012461322The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on his way to confront the invading Persian forces, stopped to watch two cocks fighting and summoned his troops, saying: “Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other.” The tale does not describe what happened to the loser, nor explain why the soldiers found this display of instinctive aggression inspirational rather than pointless and depressing. But history records that the Greeks, thus heartened, went on to repel the invaders, preserving the civilization that today honors those same creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one’s choice of sauce. The descendants of those roosters might well think—if they were capable of such profound thought—that their ancient forebears have a lot to answer for.