The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red

junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of
more than 19 billion as of 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird or
domesticated fowl.[1] Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat
and eggs) and, less commonly, as pets. Originally raised for cockfighting or for special ceremonies,
chickens were not kept for food until the Hellenistic period (4th–2nd centuries BC).[2][3]

Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia,[4]
but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian
subcontinent. From ancient India, the domesticated chicken spread to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and
to Greece by the 5th century BC.[5] Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC, with
the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar,
Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III.[6][7][8] The chicken used for regular egg and meat
production worldwide are corn-ply Broilers with white feathers, yellowish skin and faster growth rate
invented in United States of America