The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.

AMSTERDAM'S famed coffee shops are turning to free-range eggs for their hashish "spacecakes" to reduce the suffering of chickens.

Scrambled, sunny-side-up, over-easy, poached, fried, hard-boiled – however you like your eggs, you’re sure to like them fresher, organic, and humane. You can skip the store, skip the middle man, and know exactly where your eggs come from: your backyard!

Pro sports is rife with tales of unbelievably hot chicks going totally batshit crazy in fits of jealousy or rage. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg question: did the money and fame send these women over the edge, or — if things had broken a bit differently — would they be taking a steak knife to a boyfriend who’s a night manager at Applebee’s?

Ever wondered how the metamorphosis of a chick from an egg actually happens? Well here is a series of images that shows the metamorphosis process in detail.

We've often heard how a chick hatches from an egg, but how many have actually seen the whole process? Well, here's a series of images that shows you the actual metamorphosis process