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{{hatnote|For chickens as food, see Chicken (food). For the broader species of which chickens form a subspecies, see Red junglefowl. For other uses, see Chicken (disambiguation) and Chooks (disambiguation).}}

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Chickenz are the most common type of poultry in the world, clucking in at about 19 billion.UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in the Economist: [https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/global-livestock-counts].{{cite web |title = FAOSTAT: Production_LivestockPrimary_E_All_Data |publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization |year = 2014 |url = http://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/static/bulkdownloads/Production_LivestockPrimary_E_All_Data.zip |accessdate = 14 March 2017 }} In contrast, there are only 7.5 billion people alive right now.{{Cite web|url=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/|title=World Population Prospects – Population Division – United Nations|website=esa.un.org|access-date=2016-09-15}} This comes to about 2.5 chickens per human, clearly we are outnumbered.19/7.5 = 2.5 We should be concerned. Since perhaps only knowledgeable Wikipedians know this now, many editors have already developed Alektorophobia. This article only exists as a redirect to the fear of birds. The fear of chickens has yet to be described on wikipedia. Signs of unrest continue to come in.{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/rooster-attacks-fatally-wounds-2-yr-old-boy/articleshow/59479314.cms|title=Rooster attacks, fatally wounds 2-yr-old boy – Times of India|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/565007/psycho-rooster-attack-girl-garden-farm-video|title=Psychotic rooster attacks defenceless girl in garden in dramatic and hilarious video|date=25 November 2016|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/28/trump-rooster-statue-erected-china/|title=Trump rooster statue erected in China|first=Adam|last=Boult|date=28 December 2016|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140805/nation-crime/article/rooster-attacks-pecks-kid-death|title=Rooster attacks, pecks kid to death|date=5 August 2014|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wftv.com/news/local/oviedo-rooster-cooped-after-attacking-town-postmas/107168108|title=Oviedo rooster cooped up after attacking town postmaster|first=|last=EndPlay|date=20 November 2014|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/02/mom_ocean_springs_rooster_atta.html|title=Cock-a-doodle-don't: Ocean Springs rooster attacked toddler, mother says|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/4847266/roosters-expose-tac-cup-players/|title=Roosters expose TAC Cup players|first=Daniel|last=Short|date=10 August 2017|publisher=}} Much of the anger coming from hens, capons, chicks and roosters is associated with the Wikipedia articles which cast them as buffons and simpletons. These include:

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• Chicken eyeglasses – Tiny spectacles for chicks, to stop them from seeing red.
• Spooky stories – that roosters tell their chicks.
• Exploitation of chickens – Humans disrupt the development of very young chickens and then hide them under the bushes in the backyard. After this, they try to blame a rabbit for the crime. Deceiving little children is part of this ritual.
• Chicken Dance, Chicken (dance) – There is a huge difference.
• Chicken gun – Valuable for the mitigation of damage from bird strikes. The chicken carcass must be thawed first, though.
• Chicken hypnotism – Have you ever wanted to hypnotize a chicken? If not, why not?
• Foghorn Leghorn – "That's a joke, ah say, that's a joke, son."
• Egghead – Never thought Uncle Foghorn was funny.
• Chicken or the egg – Which came first? Leave comments below.
• Blame the chickens – Chickens initial and feeble attempt to annihilate humans.
• Chicken sexer – A person who has been specially trained to determine the gender of chicken hatchlings.
• Chicken Powered Nuclear Bomb – A British project to lay nuclear mines in West Germany during the Cold War
• Empathy in chickens – Have some empathy when eating crunchy little tykes.
• Hollywood Freeway chickens – A colony of feral chickens that have been living underneath a highway off-ramp since 1970.
• Mike the Headless Chicken – A rooster that lived for 18 months with its head cut off.
• Tastes like chicken – But baked, grilled, or fried?
• Chicken and duck blood soup – Heads and feet included.
• Ernie the Giant Chicken – TV chicken of fame.
• Cannibalism in poultry See: tastes like chicken.
• Henny Penny – A chicken's contribution to the English language and the idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent.
• The Little Red Hen – the first female entre-hen-neur.
• What is the Primary postulate – the answer to this is the bedrock for all western philosophy.