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Emotional-support animals are no surprise in restaurants, but customers and staff at the Cheesecake Factory in King of Prussia enjoyed a good chuckle Saturday night when a party of six walked in with a monkey. My sources, who somehow neglected to photograph the spectacle, said it was a monkey trained to alert the owner to seizures. The service simian sat calmly next to the owner in a round booth, rocking a floral-print outfit and by all accounts skipping the banana cream cheesecake.
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total. A flock of pet chickens. Hand-feeding chickens. Keeping chickens as pets became increasingly popular in the s among urban and.
Dogs, cats, pigs, and, yes, even monkeys are commonly designated as emotional-support animals, which by law can accompany owners in almost every public space, including those ordinarily closed to nonhumans such as airplanes. As the service-animal category has been extended to include such critters as peacocks, squirrels, and tarantulas, controversy has spread. PHL was chosen because of its standing in a J. Chickens have a varied diet.
Chickens are omnivores and will feed on small seeds, herbs and leaves, grubs, insects and even small mammals like mice, if they can catch them. Domestic chickens are typically fed commercially prepared feed that includes a protein source as well as grains.
Chickens often scratch at the soil to get at adult insects and larva or seed. Chickens have a well-developed gizzard a part of the stomach that contains tiny stones that grinds up their food.
Although chickens are flightless birds, they do have a tendency to attempt flight. Chickens do this by runing and flapping their wings. Unfortunately, they are not capable of staying air bourne.
Chickens sometimes can fly for very short distances such as over fences. Chickens will sometimes attempt flight simply to explore their surroundings, however, they will especially fly in an attempt to flee when they perceive danger or pursued by a predator. Chickens are gregarious birds and live together as a flock.
Chickens have a communal approach to the incubation of eggs and raising of young. Removing hens or roosters from a flock causes a temporary disruption to this social order until a new pecking order is established.
When a rooster finds food he may call the other chickens to eat it first. He does this by clucking in a high pitch as well as picking up and dropping the food.
Distinctive American varieties of chickens have been developed from these Asian breeds. Poultry fanciers began keeping these ornamental birds for exhibition, a practice that continues today. Individuals in rural communities commonly keep chickens for both ornamental and practical value. The rarest breed in Britain is the famous Scots Dumpy. Chickens can run fairly quickly, and they can jump and fly for short periods of time When flying, chickens will reach heights of about 10 feet 3.
Since chickens can jump and fly over short fences, many chicken owners tend to set up coops with nets or some other covering to keep them from wandering off, or flying over the fences.
Covering the chicken run also helps protect against many predators. A chicken coop is a housing that provides a flock of chickens that are kept outside shelter.
Inside, there will often be nesting boxes along with perches, on which the birds can rest upon. Additional material, like hay or pine chips, can be added to make cleaning the coop easier and provide insulation during the winter.
Backyard coops are small and fenced, often with chicken wire , allowing chickens an area to roam, peck and hunt insects. Chicken tractors are floorless coops which can be dragged about a yard.