the "chickens" quintessential is breeding-races of one single game-form, the Bankivahuhns (Gallus gallus), altogether. This comb-chicken (pheasants) lives very secluded in very different biotopes in India, rear-India, Indonesia and on the Philippines, provided vegetation is offered it only sufficiently as coverage. The human being naturalized Bankivahühner with success in many places; the stated spread-area corresponds to the original occurrence.
Shape Bankivahähne become 66 cm long and until 1,3 kg heavy, the hens reach approximately 43 cm of length and 0,7 kg of weight. At the run-rears, the cocks carry 2,5 cm long, occasionally even until 5 cm long spores. Also Bankivahennen have small spores from time to time. The coloring of the sexes is very different (Geschlechtsdimorphismus) with Bankivahühnern.
Domestikation The exact time of the Haustierwerdung of the Bankivahuhns is not known, but already 2500 years of v. Chr. if Bankivahühner were held in India as pets. 1000 years later, house-chickens were widespread also in China and Egypt where already large egg-quantities became erbrütet all at once in artificial brood-facilities. Many people of Europe thought house-chickens already several centuries before Christi birth as a supplier of eggs and meat while the American doubles-continent was "provided" with the most important of all domesticated birds only by the white conquerors.
Races In the multiplicity (approximately 150 races) of the breeding-forms of the house-chicken 3 reason-types let themselves distinguish: "Fighters", "Cochins" and "country-chickens."
Hochbeinige, raised and muscular fighters with strong-bony legs were bred in Asia already in the antiquity to show-fights; also in Europe (Z). B. For Belgium (England), pure fight-races arose.
Only by 1850 were introduced in Germany Cochins, 5-6 kg heavy meat-chickens from South-China, whose hens approximately 120 eggs put in the year. Other races of this fleshy type are Brahmas, Rhode-countries, Blausperber and Plymouth of skirt.
Be fitting Z to the Landhuhntyp. B. Italian and Leghorns. Through extreme breeding-selection, original nest-size of the Bankivahuhns arose for Legehennen, that casts off between 200 and 300 eggs per year: 5-6 eggs!).
Battery-attitude These races and from them emerged Weiterzüchtungen is held in downright egg-factories to thousand in narrowest cages side by side.
Also, the "chickens" and the female "Poularden" are created in full-automated mast-factories; after 7 weeks, chicks of very "hard-working" breeding-races developed heavy "rubber-eagles" into 1,3 kg. Fully automatically fed, drenched and looked after, they now become, also fully automatic, killed and processed to norm-just meat-pieces. Through ingenious feed-composition, one gains optimal growth in shortest time.
With so unnatural Aufzucht, chickens don't gain the welfare-taste of the house-chickens reared on time-honored way, that around-ran "freely" in the hen-yard or on the meadows in small groups and looked independently for its very versatile food, from the grain up to the earthworm, for itself, understandably.
However, even the most minimal life-needs of the animals fail with this mass-animal-attitude.
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