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Chickens by the Numbers
Friday, May 13, 2011
92,400,000,000: Number of chicken eggs produced in the United States last year.
37,000,000,000: Number of chickens raised globally last year.
23,000: Number of genes in the chicken genome. (Humans have about the same number.)
8,000: Number of years ago chickens may have first been domesticated from wild junglefowl.
125: Number of dollars a Bresse chicken costs at a butcher shop in Paris.
70: About the number of chicken breeds existing in the United States.
67: Minimum number of square inches of cage space the United Egg Producers recommends for a laying hen. (A letter size sheet of paper is 93 square inches.)
50: Number of dollars a person may be fined for illegally cockfighting in Alabama.
21: Number of days a chicken egg is incubated before hatching.
1: Number of fertile Pavlovskaya roosters that remained in the world in 1990. (The breed has since made a small comeback.)
0: Number of states in the United States in which cockfighting is legal.