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• chicken is a subspecies of the red junglefowl.
• Chicken - They are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 33 billion as of 2023.
• • chickens were not kept for food until the Hellenistic period (4th 2nd centuries BC)
• Duck are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.
• The domestic mallard is noisy species, medium-sized and come in wild-type plumages, white, and other

  colours.
• Domestic ducks are raised primarily for their meat, eggs, and feathers.
• Muscovy duck are large ducks, with the males about 76 cm (30 in) long, and weighing up to 7 kg (15 lb). Females are considerably smaller, and only grow to 3 kg (6.6 lb), roughly half the males' size.
• The domestic turkey is a large fowl raised throughout temperate parts of the world, partially because industrialized farming has made it very cheap for the amount of meat it produces.
• Intensive farming of turkeys from the late 1940s dramatically cut the price, m ing it more affordable for the working classes.
• • Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes.
• • The Japanese quail is predominantly brown plumage, but is sexually dimorphic: breast feathers of females are littered with dark spots among generally pale feathers, while male breast feathers show off a uniform dark reddish-brown color that is devoid of any dark spots.
• Pigeon are stout-bodied birds with short necks, and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres (beak).
• Pigeons have made contributions of considerable importance to humanity, especially in times of war as messengers. Trained domestic pigeons are able to return to the home up to 1000 km away.
• A special breed, called homing pigeons has been developed through selective breeding to carry messages, and are being used in the sport of pigeon racing and the white release dove ceremony at weddings and funerals.
• A goose (plural geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.
• the term "goose" is more properly used for a female bird, while "gander" refers specifically to a male one. Young birds before fledging are called goslings.
• The collect noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump.
• Domestic geese (Anser anser domesticus or Anser cygnoides domesticus) are domesticated grey geese that are kept for their meat, eggs and down feathers since ancient times.
• • Swans are the largest extant members of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and are among the largest flying birds.
• • The largest species, including the mute swan, trumpeter swan, and whooper swan, can reach a length of o r 1.5 m (59 in) and weigh over 15 kg (33 1b).
• • Although birds do not have teeth, swans have beaks with serrated edges that look like small jagged 'teeth' as part of their beaks used for catching and eating aquatic plants and algae, but also molluses, small fish, frogs, and worms.
• • Swans usually mate for life, although "divorce" sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another.