before chickens were on farms, etc. what was their natural habitat? where did they come from?

Answer 1

they came from thailand
In a sense, human beings invented them, just like they invented cows and pigs and other domesticated animals on Old MacDonald's Farm.

If chickens were interested in tracing their family trees, they would need to bone up on some DNA research done in Japan. Every chicken that ever lived can trace its ancestors, say researchers, to a particular subspecies of Red Jungle Fowl in Thailand.

The male Red Jungle Fowl looks a lot like a storybook rooster. But the Jungle Fowl isn't identical to a farm chicken. Unlike chickens, female Red Jungle Fowls have no combs. Another Jungle Fowl peculiarity: After mating season, males replace their bright red and orange ruff with a crop of dull, blackish feathers called "eclipse plumage."

(To see a Red Jungle Fowl in all its scarlet glory, visit the website www.centralpets.com/pages/critterpages/birds/wild_birds/WBD4315.shtml.)

Scientists think the first domestic chickens were bred from Red Jungle Fowls more than 8,000 years ago in the region now divided into Thailand and Vietnam. People bred chickens first for cockfighting contests, later for eggs and meat.

So the first official "chicken" pecked its way out of an egg laid by a bird that was not-quite-a-chicken. Depending on how you look at it, the egg--or the wild chicken--came first.

Answer 2

Domestic chickens are bred from the red jungle fowl of India and southeast Asia.

Answer 3

I think chickens came from wild jungle birds in southern and southeast Asia, including India. They were domesticated about 3200 BC.

Answer 4

originally the Russian steppes

Answer 5

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