Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess

Birds in Books: Chick Lit, Plus Sy Montgomery’s ‘What the Chicken Knows’ and Charles Willeford’s ‘Cockfighter’

At any given moment, chickens outnumber humans on this planet four to one. Of course, we eat a lot of those birds moment to moment, so the global chicken population over the course of a year is actually quite a bit larger; back of the napkin math tells me it’s about 180 billion birds, maybe more. A lot of those end up in fryers. The lucky ones end up in…