AnimalsFarm
Chicken Fun facts for kids
Gallus gallus domesticus
The chicken lives on farms all over the world and eats grain, seeds, worms and insects.
- Where it lives
- on farms all over the world
- What it eats
- grain, seeds, worms and insects
- How big it is
- as tall as a grown-up's knee
Fun facts about the chicken
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
A rooster's crow can be as loud as a jet plane, and his ears have a trick to soften the noise for him.
A mother hen clucks to her chicks while they are still in their eggs, and they peep back to her!
Chickens can remember more than a hundred different faces, of chickens and of people too.
Chickens have one warning call for a hawk in the sky and a different one for a fox on the ground.
There are more chickens in the world than any other kind of bird, billions and billions of them!
Chickens can see more colours than we can, even a special kind of light our eyes cannot see.
Chickens have no teeth, so they swallow little stones that help their tummy crush seeds.
Chickens take baths in dust, flinging dry dirt through their feathers to get rid of tiny bugs.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live on farms all over the world, and at night I sleep up high.
I have no teeth, so I swallow little stones that help my tummy crush seeds.
I take baths in dry dirt to get rid of tiny bugs in my feathers.
There are more of us in the world than any other kind of bird.
I have a red comb on my head, I cluck, and I lay eggs for your breakfast.
Sammy might be thinking of a chicken.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the chicken in the Farm adventure. It's free to play.
Play the FarmComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
