Can you get wild chickens? And if chickens have not been domistacted by us from wild chickens where did they come from?

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Asks my sister. I want to make it very clear it is my slightly drunk sister who is wanting to know the answer to this ridiculous question.

Please someone answer her. Every time I have a drink with her she becomes obsessed with wild indian chickens.

there are definitely wild indian chickens.

they came from the jungle originally (red jungle fowl)

they can fly enough to get into trees to escape predators.
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they don't fly south for the winter. (not many indigenous birds do, either)

We clip the wings of ours every year to stop them flying (just the primaries on one side, to unbalance them). Otherwise they would insist on flying up into the trees to roost instead of in the henhouse (they live in a little orchard). Or worse, flying out over the electric net which protects them from Mr (and Mrs) Fox. But it's more of a big flappy jump, not flight as we know it!

Re dinosaurs I have often watched ours as a group establishing pecking order etc and imagining that was what the family life of (some) dinosaurs must have been like too.

I have seen them catch and eat mice and even toads! On summer evenings they hunt for moths at dusk and go to bed exhausted. It is a myth that they are cuddly vegetarians!

Hurrah! Someone's already linked to the Bungay chickens! We drive over that roundabout whenever we visit pil. There used to be wild chickens living in the Godrey DIY car park here in Diss but they re-developed it as Tesco and got rid of them all. I did hear a rumour they'd been re-located to the Bungay roundabout but don't know if that's true.

I have also heard that wild chickens live near the bridge under the railway line. Apparently a friend of a friend wanted some new chicks so he captured a wild cockerel, got him to do his business with the lady chickens and then returned him to his bridge home.

A random cockerel also shows up in our garden occasionally when our hens are free ranging.

Here endeth the wild chicken stories.

cuddly vegetarians!! brilliant!

Anyone who's seen Erica catch a mouse wouldn't think that!

first time she did it, we were a bit grossed out, and so went to grab it from her, but she ran off with it in her mouth "no! i caught it, it's mine!" and then she gobbled it in one. [bleurgh]

I have a wild Indian Asil chicken. His photo is on my profile. I inherited him and he really is wild - in a bad way.

Looking at his eyes close up is like looking at a T Rex.

your chickens are beautiful BB.