Rooster Picture for Kids | Interesting Fun Facts About Chicken | Farm Animals

Rooster Picture for Kids

Read some interesting information about Rooster:

1. Chickens aren’t completely flightless - they can get airborne enough to make it over a fence or into a tree.

2. There are dozens of chicken breeds, such as the Dutch bantam, leghorn and Rhode Island red.

3. Baby chickens are chicks. Female chickens are pullets until they’re old enough to lay eggs and become hens. Male chickens are called roosters, cocks or cockerels, depending on the country you’re in.

4. Avian influenza is extremely contagious and can make chickens very sick and kill them. The highly pathogenic form of the disease can kill off 90 to 100 percent of birds in a flock in just 48 hours. 

5. Scientists think that the rooster’s wattle the dangly bit beneath his beak–helps him to gain a hen’s attention when he is tidbitting.