Chicken Travel Bug

To travel to as many caches as possible and have a picture taken at farms with my chicken pals.

This TB has been missing over a year so I am giving it a new life.  It has been replaced with a wooden tag with the same tracking number and a photo tag of the original TB chicken to enable it to travel again.

The chicken is a domesticated fowl and one of the most common and widespread domestic animals with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003.  There are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird.  Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

Chickens are omnivores.  In the wild they often scratch at the soil to search for seeds, insects and even larger animals such as lizards or mice.

Chickens may live for five to ten years depending on the breed.  The world's oldest chicken, a hen, died of heart failure at the age of 16 according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Adult chickens have a fleshy crest on their heads called a comb or cockscomb and hanging flaps of skin either side under their beaks called wattles.  Both the adult male and female have wattles and combs, but in most breeds these are more prominent in males.  A muff or beard is a mutation found in several chicken breeds which causes extra feathering under the chicken's face, giving the appearance of a beard.

Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees where they would naturally roost.  Chickens may occasionally fly briefly to explore their surroundings, but generally do so only to flee perceived danger.