How many feathers does an adult chicken have on average?
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Chris Hansen
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The number of feathers a bird has depends very much on its size and where and how it lives, in general a third of a birds feathers are on its head. The bird with the least feathers is the Ruby Hummingbird Archilochus colubris with only 940 feathers in total The bird with the most feathers is the Whistling Swan Cygnus columbianus which can have as many as 25,000 during winter. Here is the closest to an amount I can find: More than 8 billion broilers are produced in the United States annually, yielding approximately 3 billion pounds of waste chicken feathers. Here are some other feather facts: The longest feathers in the world belong to an ornamental chicken bread in Japan in 1972, this specimen had tail feathers 10.59m or 34.75ft long. The longest feathers of a wild bird belong to the Crested Argus Pheasant Rheinhartia ocellata which commonly reach lengths of 173cm or 5.7ft
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