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.

The greatest guitarist ever unmasked. It describes his life and career from the simple chicken coop to the stage today. It also shows him on a newspaper clipping from the 80's

Sainsbury's, Waitrose and the Co-op all came out well from 'Jamie's Fowl Dinners', compiled and presented by Jamie Oliver.

A couple in New South Wales had put the golf balls in their chicken coop to coax their hen to nest in a designated spot, a common practice. On finding the bumpy-bellied python where the balls should have been, the couple rushed the reptile to nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Python mistook golf balls - left by a couple in their chicken coop to encourage hens to lay - for eggs, and ate four of them.

Another canine cruising the chicken coop, the Bush Admin's Don Todd turns the tools intended to protect union members against the unions themselves.