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Humour

Chickenz

Dad's not happy – he had to stay home and watch the kids.

Chickenz are the most common type of poultry in the world, clucking in at about 19 billion.[1][2] In contrast, there are only 7.5 billion people alive right now.[3] This comes to about 2.5 chickens per human, clearly we are outnumbered.[4] We should be concerned. Since perhaps only knowledgeable Wikipedians know this now, many editors have already developed Alektorophobia.[5] Signs of unrest continue to come in.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Much of the anger coming from hens, capons, chicks and roosters is associated with the Wikipedia articles which cast them as buffons and simpletons. These include:

ummm...why are we doing this?
  1. ^ UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in the Economist: [1].
  2. ^ "FAOSTAT: Production_LivestockPrimary_E_All_Data". Food and Agriculture Organization. 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  3. ^ "World Population Prospects – Population Division – United Nations". esa.un.org. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  4. ^ 19/7.5 = 2.5
  5. ^ This article only exists as a redirect to the fear of birds. The fear of chickens has yet to be described on wikipedia.
  6. ^ "Rooster attacks, fatally wounds 2-yr-old boy – Times of India".
  7. ^ "Psychotic rooster attacks defenceless girl in garden in dramatic and hilarious video". 25 November 2016.
  8. ^ Boult, Adam (28 December 2016). "Trump rooster statue erected in China" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  9. ^ "Rooster attacks, pecks kid to death". 5 August 2014.
  10. ^ EndPlay (20 November 2014). "Oviedo rooster cooped up after attacking town postmaster".
  11. ^ "Cock-a-doodle-don't: Ocean Springs rooster attacked toddler, mother says".
  12. ^ Short, Daniel (10 August 2017). "Roosters expose TAC Cup players".