international respect for chickens month
May is the International Respect for Chickens Month!
Learn something new about chickens:
- Baby chicks start talking to their moms while still in the egg.
- There are 23 billion chickens in the world.
- Chickens can apply logic, draw inferences, and plan ahead.
- 99% of chickens are raised in factory farms.
- Chickens recognize shapes and patterns, even very complicated ones.
- Chickens raised for meat and for eggs are totally different breeds.
- Chickens can recognize up to 100 faces, including yours.
- Chickens raised for meat are slaughtered at 6 weeks of age.
- Chickens are awesome! Oh well, everybody already knows that, so it doesn’t really count as new :)
and take an action:
- Share some of the new things you just learned with your friends.
- Do something fun for your chickens like hanging a cabbage in their coop.
- Eat less chicken. Ever tried Gardein chick’n or Beyond chicken strips?
- Adopt a chicken or two.
- Support a chicken rescue/education nonprofit www.clorofil.org/donate :)
Let’s celebrate our feathered friends this month and beyond!
