Where Do Chickens Come From?
Sometimes I just say exactly what I’m thinking. This isn’t always a good idea. Especially when what I’m thinking isn’t very smart. This is what happened last night at dinner.
“Where do chickens come from?” I asked.
“Eggs,” my husband laughed.
My stepson flipped through his world history book ignoring yet another ridiculous dinner conversation.
“I mean you don’t see them in the wild, so who invented them?”
This question was met with even more laughter. “You don’t invent an animal,” my husband said.
“They must’ve come from somewhere. Like maybe someone cross bred a turkey and a duck or something.” I have an excuse for this statement. You see, I’ve been very tired the past few days and my brain hasn’t been working right.
This got my stepson’s attention. “What are you talking about?” he asked.
“Where did chickens come from?” I asked him. He knows a lot about history. I thought he might give me a good answer.
“I don’t know,” he shrugged and resumed his reading.
After dinner I looked up the history of the chicken on the internet. No they are the result of a breeding experiment involving turkeys and ducks. Chickens were found in the wild in China and India and where first domesticated in 7000BC. That answers my question.
