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Earth's land Mammals by weight (imgs.xkcd.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

90%+ chickens are bred for food, I don't think there's all that many truly wild chickens out there anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are probably some somewhere, but yeah not many. However the ones that are bred for food typically weigh more.

Hell, if you let a meat chicken grow beyond its sell-by date, there's a good chance it will develop so much muscle mass it cannot stand up anymore, and it will rot to death on the spot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure they were domesticated from something (a South Asian jungle fowl, I believe) to the extent that they are no longer even the same species. So any "wild" chickens would just be feral escapees.