Chicken ~ Isa Brown

Description:

Chickens are birds. The fleshy plume at the top of the head is called a comb, and the parts below the beak are called a wattle. Chicken feather colours vary greatly, but are commonly brown, orange, grey, white, charcoal or colour mixtures. Chickens have small, beady eyes. They cannot fly for long distances, and will only fly for short distances to explore their surroundings or to flee from danger.

Habitat:

Chickens live in small man-made dwellings called a coop. They like to nest in straw and are social animals, living well in groups.

Notes:

At Penbank we have free-range chickens. They are fed the students' food scraps, and their eggs are used in our school's cooking program or sold to our families. Our chickens enjoy roaming the school yard, where they are respected by the students and they forage for grubs, worms and weeds in our garden.