Chicken

A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. It is believed to be descended from the wild Asian Red Junglefowl.

Famous chickens

Real chickens

• Mike the Headless Chicken

Fictional chickens

• Alecto and Galina in: Clemens Brentano, The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel, and Gackeleia (New York Random House 1961), (1838).
• Billina the talking hen from L. Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz
• Chanticleer, the rooster from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales ("The Nun's Priest's Tale")
• Chicken, from the Cow and Chicken cartoon series
• Chicken Boo
• Chicken Little, the chicken that thought the sky was falling when an apple landed on its head.
• Foghorn Leghorn the rooster
• Le galline pensose of Luigi Malerba (Einaudi, 1980).
• Ginger, the protagonist of the movie Chicken Run—(or Rockie, Babs, Mac etc.)
• The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg was originally a chicken in some older versions.
• The Little Red Hen, who asked everyone in the barnyard to help bake bread.
• The Rooster Prince is a Breslov Hasidic teaching story written by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, in which a prince goes insane and believes himself to be a rooster. (In some English translations of the tale, the species of bird is a turkey.)
• The San Diego Chicken
• The Subservient Chicken, part of a viral marketing promotion.

Lord Chicken The Great. See Leongatha.

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Mythical creatures with chicken-like anatomy

• The hut of the Russian witch Baba Yaga moves on chicken feet
• The demon Abraxas, often depicted on "Gnostic gems" has a cock's head, the upper body of a man, while his lower part is formed by a snake. He often holds a whip.
• The Basilisk, an animal who kills with a single glance and poisons wells, was hatched by a toad from a cock's egg.
• The cockatrice.