What poultry are there? Which of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs are poultry?

Poultry are in fact domesticated birds, and their most important role is their food value. Poultry can be said to be the most common and most widely raised category. Although everyone is familiar with poultry, do you know what poultry there is? Here is an introduction.

1. Chicken

The domestic chicken was developed through long-term domestication from the red junglefowl, and there are many breeds. Domestic chickens still retain some biological characteristics of birds, such as being able to fly, being accustomed to foraging around, and being constantly active. They have keen hearing, sharp daytime vision, and a nervous disposition. They are omnivorous and use ingested sand and gravel to grind their food.

2. Goose

Geese had already been domesticated by humans about three to four thousand years ago, and they are now raised all over the world. Geese have very long necks, broad and sturdy bodies, long keels, full chests, short tails, and large webbed feet. They eat green grass, tolerate cold, and have strong flocking behavior and disease resistance. They grow quickly and live longer than other poultry. They inhabit areas near ponds and other waters and are good swimmers.

3. Duck

Ducks are one of the poultry species that have been artificially domesticated and raised, but they are not as commonly raised as chickens. They have a history of several thousand years of being raised, and their origin may be Southeast Asia. They are usually used for food or their feathers are used as down.

4. Pigeon

Pigeon is a general term for hundreds of species of birds, widely raised around the world. What we usually call pigeons is only one species in the genus Columba and is the domestic pigeon, and the most common domestic pigeon is the homing pigeon, mainly used for communication and racing.

5. Quail

Quail have now been artificially domesticated. Wild quail generally live in plains, wastelands, streamside areas, and hilly regions with dense weeds or low thickets, and sometimes also move around near cultivated land. They mainly eat weed seeds, beans, grains, berries, tender leaves, and tender shoots. In summer they eat large numbers of insects and larvae, as well as small invertebrates.

6. Peacock

Peacocks can now also be called poultry. Wild peacocks live in hilly forests, dry semi-desertified grasslands, and shrub and deciduous forest areas, and especially like to live near water. They build nests on the ground but roost in trees, and mainly feed on seeds, insects, fruit, and small reptiles.

7. Swan

Swans refer to birds of the tribe Cygnini, belonging to swimming birds , and can now also be considered poultry. Wild swans like to live in groups in lakes and marshlands, feeding on aquatic plants, snails, and mollusks. In China, every year between March and April, large flocks of swans fly from the south to the north and lay eggs and breed in the northern border provinces of China.

8. Turkey

The turkey was first domesticated as poultry in Oaxaca, Mexico, was introduced to Europe at the end of the fifteenth century, and was introduced to China even later. Wild turkeys still exist in southern North America. There are six subspecies of turkey in total, and the turkeys people raise today are mainly derived from the domestication of local wild turkeys by the indigenous peoples of Mexico.

The common poultry are the ones introduced above. The only one among poultry that belongs to the twelve Chinese zodiac signs is the chicken. There is actually a mythological story about how the chicken became one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. It is said that at the time the Jade Emperor set the standard for zodiac signs, only walking beasts were included, with no birds. The Chicken King was so anxious that it immediately flew to the heavenly palace and tearfully complained before the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor considered that the chicken had never neglected its duty of keeping watch at night and crowing to announce the time at dawn, so it thus entered the twelve Chinese zodiac signs.

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