Chicken
| Chicken | |
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| A cock (left) an hen (richt) | |
Conservation status
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Domesticatit
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Faimily: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Gallus |
| Species: | G. gallus |
| Subspecies: | G. g. domesticus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Gallus gallus domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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The chicken (Gallus gallus, whiles G. gallus domesticus), aft kent as a teukie frae the teuk teuk soond it maks, is a caif foul. Evidence newlin foond mynts that domestication o the chicken wis unner wey in Vietnam ower 10,000 year syne. Afore this discovery, conventional wit haudit that the chicken wis domesticatit in Indie. A poullie is a young chicken for bylin in a pat.