The chicken is a domesticated fowl, one of the earliest domesticated animals and the most common type of poultry in the world. The modern chicken is believed to be descended from the Red Junglefowl, and was raised thousands of years ago on the Indian subcontinent. Since then, it has spread all over the world.
Chickens are raised both for their eggs and their flesh, both of which are eaten. There are many different ways of cooking the meat of the chicken, which is also called chicken. They can be cooked whole, or in part, and in Japan they are sometimes even eaten raw as a type of sashimi, although this does risk salmonella. Chicken meat is sold both cooked and raw, and can be used in many different dishes. Even the carcass of a chicken, after it has been cooked and the meat removed, can be used, with it boiled to make chicken stock which can be used as a base for soups and sauces.
Chickens are a comparatively cheap and cost effective meat to buy, with almost all of it being edible. When buying whole chickens for roasting, barbecuing or whatever, it makes sense to buy a bigger bird, as the larger the bird, the less percentage of the weight is taken up by the bones of it.
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