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The lifespan of a healthy chicken generally goes to around six years. During this time, a hen can produce as many as 300 eggs a year. The egg laying capacity of a hen generally decreases as she gets older, usually around one year old.
The lifespan of a healthy chicken generally goes to around six years. During this time, a hen can produce as many as 300 eggs a year. The egg laying capacity of a hen generally decreases as she gets older, usually around one year old.
A male chicken is referred to either as a rooster or a cock, and a young rooster is referred to as a cockerall. In general, a cockeral will start crowing around 6 months old.
A male chicken is referred to either as a rooster or a cock, and a young rooster is referred to as a cockerel. In general, a cockerel will start crowing at around 6 months old.
Most chickens are skittish animals, but if hand raised, they can become extremly affectionate, even to the point of jumping on the person who raised them.
Most chickens are skittish animals, but if hand raised they can become extremely affectionate, even to the point of jumping on the person who raised them. Roosters, however, can turn aggressive for a variety of reasons, even to the point of injuring the person who raised them. In addition, many cities have passed laws restricting roosters because of their loud crowing.
As pets, chickens are generally easy to take care of with a minimum of care required. It is possible to have a hen or rooster that lives in your home, although defecation (which occurs about once every half hour) may make this more frustrating and messy than anything else. It is generally easiest to keep a chicken (or flock of chickens) in a coop.
==Cultural associations==
Culturally, in most English-speaking countries, chickens are associated with [[cowardice]]. It is unclear how this association began, or what behaviors exhibited by real-life chickens are considered to be cowardly; nonetheless, a reference to chickens is often found to be an effective way to mock a cowardly person, whether calling him or her "chicken", ostentatiously imitating a chicken, or making more complex quips such as that a cowardly proponent of [[evolution]] seems to have evolved into a chicken.
== Chicken wings ==
[[File:Chicken wings.jpg|thumbnail|300px|center|Unbreaded chicken wings, which are served in many restaurants and feature various sauces (especially hot sauce and barbecue sauce), are often called Buffalo wings because they were invented in Buffalo, NY.]]
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