Chicken

Eat your veg, not my egg!

FACTS

Naturally I’ll live for up to 15 years

For meat I’d be killed around 40 days

My fave food: sweetcorn, kale, lettuce

Did you know?

I’m smart and can add and subtract using numbers smaller than five

Our mums talk to their chicks through their eggshell before they hatch, and the chicks 🐣 chirp back

I’m the closest living relative of 🦖 dino Tyrannosaurus Rex!

I have more bones in my small neck than a tall 🦒 giraffe

I can remember 100 faces of people or animals

Almost all boys are minced alive or gassed on the day they’re born; egg-laying girls have the space of about an A4 sheet of paper for their farm lives.

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