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Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus Black and white speckled feathers. Females have shorter feathers than males, gray legs, and a small red comb.<br /> <br /> Habitat: I was trying to take pictures of butterflies in a meadow when I met up with this chicken. She followed me everywhere - even into the woods a bit. She was very curious and friendly, but scared away just about every butterfly that I spotted. The nature center where I was hiking has a working farm, and they have many different kinds of free-range chickens that wander around at will - which is where I spotted this free-spirited hen. <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/71970/silver_spangled_hamburg_chicken_-_gallus_gallus_domesticus.html" title="Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus domesticus"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/71970_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=kzCnUCSk8P8U%2B%2FoZB5aJESFWsB8%3D" width="200" height="160" alt="Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus domesticus <br /> Black and white speckled feathers. Females have shorter feathers than males, gray legs, and a small red comb.<br /> <br /> Habitat: I was trying to take pictures of butterflies in a meadow when I met up with this chicken. She followed me everywhere - even into the woods a bit. She was very curious and friendly, but scared away just about every butterfly that I spotted. The nature center where I was hiking has a working farm, and they have many different kinds of free-range chickens that wander around at will - which is where I spotted this free-spirited hen.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/71969/silver_spangled_hamburg_chicken_-_gallus_gallus_domesticus.html Domestic Chicken,Gallus gallus,Gallus gallus var. domesticus,Geotagged,Red junglefowl,Summer,United States" /></a></figure> Domestic Chicken,Gallus gallus,Gallus gallus var. domesticus,Geotagged,Red junglefowl,Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken,Summer,United States,chicken,gallus,gallus gallus domesticus Click/tap to enlarge

Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus

Black and white speckled feathers. Females have shorter feathers than males, gray legs, and a small red comb.

Habitat: I was trying to take pictures of butterflies in a meadow when I met up with this chicken. She followed me everywhere - even into the woods a bit. She was very curious and friendly, but scared away just about every butterfly that I spotted. The nature center where I was hiking has a working farm, and they have many different kinds of free-range chickens that wander around at will - which is where I spotted this free-spirited hen.

Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus domesticus <br /> Black and white speckled feathers. Females have shorter feathers than males, gray legs, and a small red comb.<br /> <br /> Habitat: I was trying to take pictures of butterflies in a meadow when I met up with this chicken. She followed me everywhere - even into the woods a bit. She was very curious and friendly, but scared away just about every butterfly that I spotted. The nature center where I was hiking has a working farm, and they have many different kinds of free-range chickens that wander around at will - which is where I spotted this free-spirited hen.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/71969/silver_spangled_hamburg_chicken_-_gallus_gallus_domesticus.html Domestic Chicken,Gallus gallus,Gallus gallus var. domesticus,Geotagged,Red junglefowl,Summer,United States

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  1. View Ernst's profile
    Ernst
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    Christine , firstly wishing for you a very exciting New Year with lots of great spottings
    I love the different domestic breeds but alwise believed that they are not accepted.
    I think they are a evol/ creation by human hands and are in today’s world require protection or we loose them all together.     Posted 6 years ago
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      Christine Young
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      Happy new year to you too Ernst!

      I am wondering if it would be a good idea to separate the spottings of wild red junglefowl from the domesticated chicken spottings? I'm not sure if there is a way to do this, and it seems that most of the "chicken" photos on JD are domesticated. I have read that truly wild red junglefowl are in danger of extinction and that many are breeding with domestic chickens, etc. I suspect this could be the case in places like Hawaii where wild chickens brought by the Polynesians have bred with farm chicken escapees to create enormous, wild, mixed breed populations of chickens. I have been to several Hawaiian islands, and Kauai is especially overrun with chickens. They are everywhere.       Posted 6 years ago
  3. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    "Are you hunting butterflies? I'll help!" Posted 6 years ago
    1. View Christine Young's profile
      Christine Young
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      Haha, exactly...they are quite the little beggars! They are so used to people that you can actually pick them up and pet them. They seem to like it, but I confess that I've never done it myself. I prefer to just watch them wandering the land, enjoying their lives. Too bad that most of them have been eaten by local fox and coyote though. The nature center stopped keeping chickens for awhile because of this problem. Posted 6 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        To me, chickens are the closest thing to raptor dinosaurs we still have walking around. The way they move, how primitive/dumb they are, how brutal they are (even though we perceive them as cute). Could be one of my crazy thoughts though :) Posted 6 years ago
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          Christine Young
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          Not crazy about the dino link...Chickens are kind of like clucking velociraptors...

          And yes - what the peck is up with their being so mean?! Have you ever witnessed a chicken fight? They are brutal and explain the term "pecking order". This is exactly why I'm not cuddling a strange chicken like the yuppy hikers do at this nature center. I value my eyeballs too much.           Posted 6 years ago
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            Ferdy Christant
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            Yes, they are ruthless, without mercy! In La Isla Escondida, you know the jungle lodge I'm in the process of sharing the set for, they had two hens roaming around the lodge. In all my ignorance, I asked how they even survive given the high concentration of vipers around.

            The answer was that you should wonder instead how the vipers survive with these hens around.             Posted 6 years ago
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              Haha, amazing! Posted 6 years ago

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The Domestic Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet.

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Uploaded Jan 1, 2019. Captured Jul 16, 2016 09:18 in 5 East St, New Milford, CT 06776, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 60D
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  • 135mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.