The most numerous bird on Earth, descended from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia. For most of history a backyard scavenger kept for eggs and Sunday meat, the chicken became in the twentieth century the object of the most intensive selective breeding in agriculture, and now supplies more meat than any other land animal. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific NameGallus gallus domesticus 1 Domestication Region Domesticated When (Circa)circa 1500 BC by recent estimates, earlier dates debated 1 Primary Uses Era
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Coccidiosis (Eimeria spp.) is one of the most economically significant intestinal diseases of commercial chicken flocks.
This milestone records the domestication event of the chicken it is directly named for.
the egg incubator artificially hatches eggs, most commonly chicken eggs
Highly pathogenic avian influenza causes near-total mortality in infected commercial chicken flocks.
Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) is an immunosuppressive viral disease of young chickens.
Marek's disease is a highly contagious herpesvirus-caused lymphoma disease of chickens.
Newcastle disease is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of chickens and other poultry.
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It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world.
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