Chicken in Farmstead World — animal in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
The chicken is the world’s most numerous farm bird, kept for eggs and meat since it was domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia.
It is a small, hardy flock animal that lays through the year and takes well to living close to people.
Farm facts about chicken
Every farmyard chicken descends from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia, domesticated around 8,000 years ago. The two are still the same species and can interbreed. (en.wikipedia.org)
The earliest probable chicken bones, around 3,250 years old, come from Ban Non Wat in central Thailand — chickens appear to have been tamed alongside early rice farming. (en.wikipedia.org)
A chicken's yellow skin is a wild souvenir: the gene came from the grey junglefowl, picked up through hybridizing with a cousin species of the red junglefowl. (en.wikipedia.org)
Red junglefowl breed explosively when bamboo masts and carpets the forest floor with seed — the trait that let ancient farmers turn them into the chicken. (en.wikipedia.org)
Prehistoric Austronesian voyagers carried chickens, along with dogs and pigs, from Taiwan across the Pacific and all the way to Madagascar, starting by 3000 BC. (en.wikipedia.org)
Chickens reached Egypt around 1400 BC, kept first for cockfighting rather than food, and were only widely bred there by about 300 BC. (en.wikipedia.org)