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Quote: China announced last November that it would begin vaccinating 14 billion domestic chickens against H5N1.

Is it just me or is that an awful lot of chickens?

If those chickens walked by you 50 abreast :lol: it would take thousands of years for them to pass by surely. How in the hell are you going to innoculate that many birds?

Just a thought.
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Post by Hippy »

With a line of chickens 50 wide, the line would be 280 million chickens long.

If a chicken walks at 1kph, and given that a chicken is 20cm long, providing the chickens are walking beak to tail, in 1 hour, 200 lines of chickens or 10000 individual chickens would walk past.

Therefor, it would take 28000 hours or 1166.6 days or 3.19 years for the line of chickens to walk past.
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Post by Clingy »

That's a lot of rubbery chicken ;)
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Chickens dont live that long do they? Obviously all the chickens would have to be trained first to walk in a line without straying. I say it cant be done.
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chickenboy wrote: There is no agreement on the specific number of years as regards to
the lifespan of chickens. It seems that based on the articles I was
able to find, the lifespan of chickens is 5 to 10 years but can go as
long as 12-15 years.

"Chickens and ducks can live anywhere from 5 - 10 years depending on
the quality of life provided."
<a href="http://www.petinfo4u.com/chickens.htm" target="_blank">http://www.petinfo4u.com/chickens.htm</a>

"7 years"
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/oh/ZebraDirect ... l#lifespan" target="_blank">http://www.angelfire.com/oh/ZebraDirect ... ifespan</a>

"The average lifespan of a factory farmed chicken is 7 weeks .The
natural lifespan of a chicken is 7 years."
<a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111448/Didyouknow.html" target="_blank">http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111448/ ... ow.html</a>

"7- or 8-year normal lifespan for a chicken."
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/20 ... cken_x.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/20 ... n_x.htm</a>

"The natural lifespan of a chicken is about ten years."
<a href="http://www.g21.net/news45.html" target="_blank">http://www.g21.net/news45.html</a>

"The average lifespan of a chicken is eight to 10 years..."
<a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=33795" target="_blank">http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=33795</a>

"The 'natural' lifespan of a chicken could be over 12 years."
<a href="http://www.glasgowzoo.co.uk/articles/birds/poultry.php" target="_blank">http://www.glasgowzoo.co.uk/articles/bi ... try.php</a>

"Pet chickens average lifespan is about 15 years."
<a href="http://www.birdhobbyist.com/articles/Bi ... ckens.html" target="_blank">http://www.birdhobbyist.com/articles/Bi ... ns.html</a>
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Post by Hippy »

Battery chickens last 7 weeks??
that's an advert to eat free range chicken if ever i saw one.

Mind you, then you've gone and eaten it, so it's life span is even less. . . . i'm confused.
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Post by Eagle »

Hippy wrote: Battery chickens last 7 weeks??

I bet Duracell chickens last longer :lol:
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Post by Claw »

That's only domestic chickens... does that mean there are wild ones? :ph34r:
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