Talk:Chickens

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• When you hear the crowing of a cock, ask for Allah’s Blessings for [its crowing indicates that] it has seen an angel.
  • Bukhari, vol. 4, book 59, no. 3303 -- interesting quote, but full source needed Ficaia (talk) 02:28, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

• Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chicken ‘ the bird from Meluhha’ and the Syrians called it the ‘Akkadian bird’.
  • Oppenheim AL 1977 Ancient Mesopotamia Chicago/London, Univ. Chicago Press.(p 317: quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Aditya Prakashan. ch. 7