The word "chickens" is a perfectly valid and commonly-used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the domesticated bird of the same name (Gallus gallus domesticus). For example, "I went to the market to buy six chickens for dinner."
Cameron read out a number of text messages from listeners in the "listener breaking news" section of the show, which included "I let my new chickens out this morning" and "On my way to pick up my new Mini".
Breakfast is hearty, with homemade cakes, organic apple juice, and eggs from their own chickens.
The chickens were apparently a reference to a 2010 stunt carried out by Voina, a radical art collective to which some Pussy Riot members previously belonged, in which a participant stole a whole raw chicken from a supermarket and inserted it into her vagina.
So here, for the time being, are the chickens, all 6,000 of them; 1,000 per state-of-the free-range-poultry-art mobile barn, a crowd of white-feather-dusters fossicking around in the grass surrounding their homes.
Asda has expressed its disappointment after it topped a supermarket league table for the presence of the food-poisoning bug campylobacter in fresh chickens.
Of the Asda chickens sampled 28% were in this bracket which the FSA considers most likely to infect consumers.
That many chickens would lay more than 500m table eggs a month.
For comparison, Iowa chickens laid 1.4bn table eggs in March, before the disease struck.
Related: Bird flu outbreak continues as flock of millions registers infection in Iowa Egg supplies are falling short of demand, the US Department of Agriculture has indicated, and Brown said egg buyers such as grocery stores and wholesalers are trying to stock up for fear that another large farm with millions of chickens will be stricken – causing prices to spike higher.
The number of Iowa chickens lost exceeds 26m, the vast majority of which lay eggs for food use.
The eggs at breakfast were from their chickens in the backyard.
