I was wondering the other day how come you never hear of chickens living in the wild. Well, it turns out that there have indeed been groups (herds?) of wild chickens in scattered places, such as
Los Angeles,
Fitzgerald, GA,
Key West, FL,
Weirton, WV,
Fair Oaks, CA,
Hawaii,
Seattle,
Suffolk, England, and even
New Jersey. Apparently chickens can be more resourceful than I thought.
Hmm! Whodathunk!
ReplyDeleteBtw, a group of chickens is called a flock, a group of chicks is called a clutch (yeah, like a little purse!), and hens??... a brood of hens. I guess when we call our kids our "brood", we're referring to them as hens? Ha!
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ReplyDeleteO.E. brod, from P.Gmc. *brod (cf. M.Du. broet, O.H.G. bruot), lit. "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from base *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew). The verbal figurative meaning ("to incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1571, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc.