WHY DON'T CHICKEN BREASTS HAVE NIPPLES?
My husband asked me... If chickens are birds, why don't they fly? I countered that question with ... If chickens have breasts why don't they have nipples?..... So, being the inquisitive one... I had to find out why? Seems like a logical question to me......... So, in my research I found out that chickens of ancient times did indeed have nipples. They also produced milk to feed their young. Because chickens had a "double duty" of having eggs and then nursing the young the shells were thinner, smaller and were striped. This was not satisfactory to the humans who had already developed a like for the food product that eggs provided them. Sometime in 2500 BC a mysterious and deadly disease from Asia wiped out the entire egg laying population. Except for some domesticated game hens, who seemed to have a natural immunity to the mysterious disease. This loss of egg laying fowl created a supply and demand issue... and created businesses that had these game hens
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