Only on some airlines, and only on domestic flights. And they gots to go through
the TSA screening, just like everybody else. Me and my sis was flying in Texas and
using Arkansas Central Airways, which flys them DC-3s, we was taking dinner to my
old moms in 'Bama? And we took a couple fat hens, but we took plastic bags fer they
crap and all, and people didn't like the birds squacking an screeching, but them planes
are pretty noisy and hell, we got there, and moms was tickled to Jesus to have the
birds, she took the axe to them right when we got there. Cost too much, we should
of gone greyhound.
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> John (gnujohn)
What they do is more like gliding while flapping their wings desperately. I own a few and they are able to get about 5-7 feet in the air for a second and then start to float back to the ground.
The ability to fly is bread out of most domestic chickens . They are bread for meat or eggs and flight was not a consideration . Wild chickens (Jungle fowl )or game chickens can fly .
Yes, but not well. Some breeds hardly ever even attempt it. Others, like Leghorns, are notorious for flying when you don't want them to. Some of ours, a barred rock and NH reds fly up to the top of their coop to spend the night, at least during the mild weather.
No
Domesticated chickens are known as flightless birds, most live in small areas, or their pens/coops/yards are generally predator and structure free so they don't know how to do anything but walk and hop around. Wild chickens are mostly the same with some having the ability to glide or fly extremely short distances (a few feet to a few yards vertically and horizontally).
Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees (where they would naturally roost). Chickens may occasionally fly briefly to explore their surroundings, but generally do so only to flee perceived danger.
Yes. But not very far.
Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees (where they would naturally roost).
From experience: only for very short distances and not very high
Kinda lmao but just a little and then they fall
Yes. Not well or far, but they can. Ours do. Most chickens have their wings clipped so they can't fly the coop, so to speak.
Factory farm chickens are not given any chance to exercise and are overfed and poorly fed, so they don't fly.
It's like hopping!
