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The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red
Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a
population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the
world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a
source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs. The traditional
poultry farming view of the domestication of the chicken is stated in Encyclopædia Britannica (2007):
"Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting
in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Very little formal attention was given to egg or
meat production... " Recent
genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East,
and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle
East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. Source
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The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs. The traditional poultry farming view of the domestication of the chicken is stated in Encyclopædia Britannica (2007): "Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Very little formal attention was given to egg or meat production... " Recent genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. Source
