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ChickenCoop

@Chicken_project

Researchers on the AHRC-funded Chicken Project will keep you up to date with their findings.

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scicultchickens.org/
Joined March 2012
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Gathering data for @Chicken_project at our open days - where in the world are chickens from? Share your thoughts and we’ll tweet the answer on Saturday afternoon!
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Our latest episode of #ArchaeoAnimals is up! We talk about chickens, the amazing @Chicken_project, and ruin our podcast’s integrity with bad chicken jokes. Download wherever you get your podcasts, or from our website! #zooarchaeology #archaeology archaeologypodcastnetwork.co…
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner - Ep 10 — ArchaeoAnimals (Archive)

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner - Ep 10 — ArchaeoAnimals (Archive)

This episode is all about chickens! How to eat them. How to identify them. Different types. All things chicken. There’s even a few chicken jokes. Sources

archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
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Does art deliver life? Lots of lovely chickens in the Acropolis Museum, but @FlintDibble tells me they don’t find the bones. @Chicken_project
Image from Angela Trentacoste (@dr_bone_lady)
Image from Angela Trentacoste (@dr_bone_lady)
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Finally located the only fragments of egg shell ever found at the Palace. They were needed by @Chicken_project from @bournemouthuni but had been put in the wrong box in our store. It took 16 months to find! #needleinahastack
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Image from Fishbourne Roman Palace (@romanpalace)
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Informative and intriguing workshop at Senate House, Causing a Flap, part of @Chicken_project - an @AHRCSciCulture large grant now moving on to @ahrcpress GCRF Ethiopian project – at Camden Town, London
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Causing a Flap event at Senate House today @Chicken_project ready or not the chickens are out to play !
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Please sign up here for a thought-provoking day in London!
ChickenCoop (@Chicken_project) profile pictureChickenCoop@Chicken_project6 Aug 2018
Chicken lovers! We’re all set for our final outreach event - come for a session, stay for the day! Full details and sign up here eventbrite.co.uk/e/causing-a… @AHRCSciCulture @ahrcpress
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#battle2018 this morning we have moved from horses to chickens!
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It seems the message that birds are dinosaurs is spreading, though possibly not as intended... @NaomiSykes1
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If interested in the great challenges of our time & solutions this is a must read @marynmck . Out today & brilliant!
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Excited to present our research on medieval ritual deposits with chicken 🐔 at #EAA2017 this afternoon! @quiroscastillo @Chicken_project
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Theresa May has succeeded in providing the hostile environment for migrants she promised. Read @alison_phipps here. thenational.scot/politics/15…
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Why aren't we more outraged about eating chicken? theconversation.com/why-aren… by @SmidgeSpence via @ConversationUK #AnimalWelfare
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Breaking news:
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Retweeting this cheeky chicken's tale for #BookLoversDay xitter.cf/BBSRC/status/895606649…
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#BookLoversDay we're reading a brilliant farm-yard tale written in the fourteenth-century #Chaucer #CanterbruyTales ow.ly/3rGE30ej1f3
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Our grey junglefowl makes an appearance on the #chickentrail and helps explain how chickens got their iconic yellow legs. xitter.cf/Chicken_project/status…
ChickenCoop (@Chicken_project) profile pictureChickenCoop@Chicken_project31 Jul 2017
Why do chickens have yellow legs? Find out on the next step of our #chickentrail scicultchickens.org/blog/old… @morethanadodo
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EasterE.g@AHRCEasterEg30 Jun 2017
Replying to @Chicken_project
Good question. True wolves were native but we don't know when (and therefore why) they went extinct. That's fundamental to rewinding case.
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BioArCh@York_BioArCh29 Jun 2017
BioArch Instrument Technician £31,076 - £38,183 pa (but it's for the love of BioArCh, not the money) goo.gl/pnVNVy
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EasterE.g@AHRCEasterEg6 May 2017
Are you a zooarchaeologist preoccupied by Lagomorphs? What better way to spend your weekend than applying for this! nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/curren…
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Liisa Loog@liisaloog4 May 2017
.@thetimes on our selection analysis on chickens (paywalled :( ) @mt_genes @Greger_Larson @DeepFriedDNA @NaomiSykes1 thetimes.co.uk/article/how-m…
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