2006-12-15 02:43:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Ummm, they don't nurse their young.
2006-12-15 02:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by Tater 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Archy Bunker, in his modesty, called them "chicken chests which is really what they are. The "breast", when speaking of birds, is another term for the chest area. The breast of any mammal does contain nipples. Birds cannot have mammary glands and do not feed their young breast milk. The term " pigeon milk" is used to describe the regurgitated food that a mother bird such as a dove feeds her babies. Bats, even though they can fly, are mammals.
2006-12-15 02:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by quaver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chickens do not have "breasts" in the same sense that mammals do, that is, they do not have milk-producing glands. "Breast" in this case simply means the chest region. What we eat is simply the muscles of the chest (breast) region, roughly comparable to the "breast" of a man, but not of a woman. Remember, one of the pieces of armor worn by knights was the "breastplate".
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2006-12-15 06:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chicken is not a mammal and doesn't have mammary glands. Therefor no need for nipples.
2006-12-15 05:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by bravokardia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason why a tap or a valve has a nipple without breast!
2006-12-15 02:49:07 · answer #5 · answered by Hobby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well why do men have nipples? We don't need them. Maybe we should give then to the chickens.
2006-12-15 02:47:44 · answer #6 · answered by John C 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
mammals have nipples. Mammal is from mammary--as in the gland. Chickens don't feed thier young with mammary glands.
2006-12-15 02:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by ~XenoFluX 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Baby chickens have a yoke sac in their shell that feeds them till they hatch then they eat regular food. The mother does not have to feed them.
2006-12-15 03:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only mammals have nipples (mammary glands)
2006-12-15 02:52:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chickens don't nurse their young so you don't need nipples
2006-12-16 02:09:57 · answer #10 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is sames as
y is a rooster called a c o c k
and now u cannot write the wrod properly coz it will be taken as obscene
same as another word which used to mean happy but not ne more, now it is a form of a lifestyle,
2006-12-15 02:52:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋