Chicken

The **Chicken *(Gallus sp.)*** is a species of ground-dwelling bird of the family Phasianidae. At least two subsequent domestications of this bird occurred in history; once in southeastern Grimur (*Gallus grimuri*), and once in Phiasica (*Gallus orientalis*).

## Species

### Grimur Chicken

The Grimur Chicken, *Gallus grimuri*, is the native chicken species in most of tropical and temperate Grimur. There are a number of regional wild subspecies, but the most common domestic variety is the Ssamanor Junglefowl, (*G. grimuri domesticus*).

#### Beach Chicken

The **Beach Chicken** ***(G. grimuri litorae)*** is a subspecies of Grimur Chicken that is usually found on the north-central coasts of Grimur and the islands outside of it.

They are generally passive creatures who inhabit the shores of Grimur, their meat is sought after in some parts of Grimur simply from the rarity of the bird. As a result, Beach Chickens are considered endangered in the northern parts of their range due to overhunting.

In the city of Haiwana, the mayor Alexander Yung is leading an effort to breed these chickens so they can adapt to sub-tropical beach whether.

#### Compared to a normal Grimuri chicken

One of the most common variants of the Beach chicken, the **Northern Beach Chicken, *Gallus grimuri litorae var. boreus*** tends to have more dark meat and tends to be smaller than the normal Grimuri chicken, on the other hand the **Southern Beach Chicken, *Gallus grimuri litorae var. austerae*** tends to have more light meat and much larger, these two species were crossbred by Alexander, along with a Ssamanór junglefowl to make a stronger species for subtropical Grimur and created the third variant of Beach chicken, the Haiwanan Beach chicken

#### Products of the Beach Chicken

Unlike other chickens, both genders are used for production in the world of Grimur.

##### Male

The roosters of the variants of Beach Chicken generally have harder feathers than the standard chicken, this is because the Beach rooster's feathers tend to have a heavy concentration of Calcium and Calcium carbonate found in the feathers, this make it harder to cut the feathers off but in turn makes better quality quills and arrows.

##### Female

The hens tend to lay very delicate and fragile eggs, the eggs of beach chickens doesn't have much calcium carbonate, the softness of the eggs makes them more expensive as the softness makes it more harder to transport, but it is both more golden and more flavourful. his is because their diet consists of corn, wheat, salt water ( they had adapted to drinking water), kelp, seagrass, seapickles and chillies, the meat is tender and having a really complex, umami flavour with a buttery consistency and yellowish flesh.

#### Physiology

They almost never touch grass as it contains copper, after their genetic mutation of them eating sea plants, corn, wheat ( no copper) and chillies they had developed a serious allergy to copper.

#### Variants

##### Haiwanan Beach chicken

**Haiwanan beach chicken *(G. grimuris litorae var. haiwanae)*** is a variant of the Beach Chicken subspecies; their genes mutated to adapt to the subtropical climate of Southern Niestra.

### Eastern Chicken

*Gallus orientalis*, the Eastern Chicken or Phiasican Chicken, is the chicken species known domestically from the tropical south of Phiasica. Little is known to the Grimurites about their wild nature, but they are widely domesticated by the various cultures of Phiasica. They were brought to Grimur by Elven merchants, explorers, and settlers, who raised them for meat, eggs, and feathers.

The Eastern Chicken is generally larger than the Grimur Chicken, and has more white meat. However, unlike the sexually dimorphic Grimur Chicken which has a large wattle on the male bird, both male and female Eastern Chickens are morphologically androgynous save for the occasional mutant male.