Selective breeding is simple, really. Say you want a chicken that lays a whole lot of eggs. In a given generation of your chickens, then, you’d only allow master egg-laying hens to breed.

Stock image: A white chicken walks on grass. getty images. The video quickly went viral on social media and it has so far received over 649,000 views and more than 103,700 likes on the platform.

Those brought to Hawaii were actually red jungle fowl, the wild ancestor of the modern chicken. Over the years, those birds mixed with domestic chickens brought later by European colonists and others.

No one ever intended to settle hundreds — some say thousands — of wild chickens around the front porches and scattered palm trees of this south Georgia city, population 8,700.

Red junglefowl, ancestors of wild chickens, are known to mix with domestic birds. Wu et al., 2023. CC BY-SA 4.0 Farmyards and backyards across Asia are filled to the brim with clucking, strutting ...