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 to become wealthy overnight. There were people that would even hire themselves out to go and hunt for eggs. (has nothing to do with the Easter Bunny.. don't get excited)
Well, people couldn't tolerate the shortage of eggs for omelettes ...... so they intervened and began creating their own type of chicken to breed and raise. They bred the nipple right off of the chicken and removed its milk producing abilities. This created a chicken that would lay eggs with thicker shells, the eggs were bigger, and all of this was paid for by government subsidies and done along the Tigris River , in the city of Sumer. Poultry people and geneticists removed the udder from the hen.
TADA..........No more chicken milk.
(as strange as this sounds, it is all true)
So, now you know why Chicken Breasts Don't Have Nipples!
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