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.

This tour of the web's "most curious comestibles" offers Sweet Sue's Canned Whole Chicken (Without Giblets); bottled boiled three-week-old fertilized duck eggs; a drink made from regurgitated gelatinous bird spit; and canned stewed silkworm pupae, to name a few. Reader suggestions welcome.

KEN ARNO THE EGG MAN runs one of the last poultry farms in the San Fernando Valley. It’s entirely organic, with free-range chickens and turkeys, some caged chickens, goats, a few geese and ostrichlike rheas. Teachers buy his fertile chicken eggs so children can watch them hatch in school. With a permit from the county agriculture department, which

Raise you own crops or livestocks! Raise chickens and sell their eggs for a nice profit. Harvest fruits or vegetables; use fertilizers to speed things up a little. Thats about it, have fun!

A chicken-and-egg conundrum is peculiarly appropriate to a question involving fertility. Which came first, the waning of religion in the West or the fall in birth rates?

In this game you can plant fruit and vegetable or raise chickens for their eggs. Use fertilizer to accelerate your harvest time.