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Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicken - Gallus gallus domesticus
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.
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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