Trivia: Are You Chicken?
TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately." HINT:(1854-1900), Irish writer and poet, one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. RANDOM TIDBITS The chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is a domestic subspecies of the red junglefowl, a member of the pheasant family that is native to Asia. Chickens are omnivores. They'll eat seeds and insects but also larger prey like small mice and lizards. Baby chickens are chicks. Female chickens are pullets until they're old enough to lay eggs and become hens. Male chickens are called roosters, cocks or cockerels, depending on the country you're in. A rooster announces to a flock of chickens that he's found food with a "took, took, took." But the hens don't pay attention if they already know that there is food around. Roosters perform ...