Question from kids: Can chickens fly?

[Piersman2]

Title says it all.... can chickens fly?

We've all seen them sat in their battery pens etc... we've all seen Chicken Run the movie. And we've just seen an advert where a chicken did seem to take off but that was the end of the advert and the chicken may have continued yonder, or just collapsed back down the ground in a feathery clump.

So come on... tell me the truth!

[Piersman2]

P.S. So far I've told them that chickens can fly but have their winfs clipped to prevent it.

So that it the desired correct answer

[Piersman2]

SO clipped or naturally unable to fly, you lot are useless!