Can Chickens Fly?

[dibbers006]

I was under the impression that Chickens can fly and this is why they required their wings clipping.

However, mass produced Roast Chickens for Tesco etc are generally too heavy to manage any more than a large leap.

Am I wrong?

[Prometheus]

Yes:

[OllieWinchester]

They can sort of flap about up to a couple of foot, and I'm sure they would be better placed than you or I were they to fall off the Eiffel Tower, but no, they can't really fly. I think.

[Sheets Tabuer]

They can't fly as such but can go quite a way with a good run up

[JVaughan]

Yes they can fly. generally they dont like to, and I dont think they can for very far but yes is yoru answer.

Perhapse a Chicken ""Lover"" can clarify

[Legend83]

JVaughan said:

Chicken ""Lover""

Come on, who is going to own up to that one?

[OllieWinchester]

Well I love chicken, I don't love with chickens, if you know what I mean.

[AlexKP]

I am not a chicken "lover" - that just sounds very wrong.

But we do have chickens and they can fly a bit - especially if they get out of their enclosure and I run at them brandishing a garden rake.

[RVVUNM]

My chickens cannot take off and fly up more than four foot, but can do a kind of controlled crash landing if they fell off anything high up.

[dibbers006]

RVVUNM said:

My chickens cannot take off and fly up more than four foot, but can do a kind of controlled crash landing if they fell off anything high up

Are they fat?

[RVVUNM]

dibbers006 said:

RVVUNM said:

My chickens cannot take off and fly up more than four foot, but can do a kind of controlled crash landing if they fell off anything high up

Are they fat?

One's fat,two are normal and the other two are racing chickens,so very thin.

[AndyAudi]

I think chickens (the ones we eat) get too heavy to fly at a fairly young age.

Hens (they lay eggs) are all Skin & bones and they can fly a little (I have quite a lot and they roost on the roof beams and fly down in the morning.)

(I remember somone explaining white meat was for short bursts of energy and brown meat was for more sustained activity, hens, which don't fly often, have white meat (except for legs), whereas ducks which do fly have brown meat.

So I'm going with no chickens can't fly (but Hens can a little)

Eta my generalisation of Hens & Chickens is the modern day hybrids bred for different purposes

Edited by AndyAudi on Tuesday 10th March 14:48

[UncappedTag]

Has noone watched Chicken Run

[maddog993]

In a controlled experiment, I chucked one off a high wall (when I was little) and it didn't plummet to it's death, it just flapped frantically which did the job of controlling it's descent but you certainly couldn't call it flying.

[dibbers006]

UncappedTag said:

Has noone watched Chicken Run

They were FAT chickens!

[MK4 Slowride]

If you threw one out of the window of a tall building it'd be flying.

ETA:

Prometheus said:

Yes:

Is that a Chicken Gun with some Chooks in the mag? A bit maverick non?

Edited by MK4 Slowride on Tuesday 10th March 14:58

[JVaughan]

UncappedTag said:

Has noone watched Chicken Run

I was thinking more of SouthPark ... the early eppisodes

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/203/

Edited by JVaughan on Tuesday 10th March 15:01

[mechsympathy]

We had chickens when I was a child and if we forgot to clip their wings they could fly out of their pen with a 9ft fence and would roost in trees. So, yes they can.

[Jasandjules]

Yes, they can fly, at least to a degree. Friends have them and they quite often fly up into the trees and sit there all afternoon.

[willmcc]

indeed they can, does depend on the type of Chicken but Bantams for instance can fly very well, generally only a hundred yards at most but enough to get to the trees as previously mentioned.