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For the culinary use of chickens, see Chicken as food. For other uses, see Chicken
(disambiguation) and Chooks (disambiguation).
Chicken
Female pair.jpg
A rooster or cock (left) and hen (right)
Conservation status
Domesticated
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Gallus
Species: G. gallus
Subspecies: G. g. domesticus
Trinomial name
Gallus gallus domesticus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies
of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). They are one of the most common and
widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion as of 2018[1],
up from more than 19 billion in 2011.[2] There are more chickens in the world than
any other bird or domesticated fowl.[2] Humans keep chickens primarily as a source
of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and, less commonly, as pets.
Originally raised for cockfighting or for special ceremonies, chickens were not
kept for food until the Hellenistic period (4th�2nd centuries BC).[3][4]

Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in South Asia, Southeast
Asia, and East Asia,[5] but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the
Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India,
the domesticated chicken spread to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by
the 5th century BC.[6] Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC,
with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land
between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according