Hill chicken
The common slope chicken ( Gallus gallus conatus ) is a fantasy creatures that is mentioned mainly in jokes. The key message is that there are chickens who, due to their habitat (slope, dike, steeply sloping terrain) have developed legs of different lengths through evolutionary adaptation in order to be able to stand better on the slope. Similar jokes also concern hill or dike sheep and the Dahu from Switzerland in other regions .
The breeding of hillside chickens is said to go back to the efforts of railroad workers who once observed that their chickens with legs of the same length kept tipping off the railway embankments . This explains why there are north and south hillside fowl, depending on which side of the embankment they live or in which direction they are facing. The southern slope chicken, which has differently sized wings in addition to legs of different lengths, is therefore only able to describe an orbicular trajectory from the above-mentioned physique.
The male hill chicken, the hill rooster ( also called hill rooster in southern Germany and parts of Austria ), has to walk around the hill once to mate in order to get to the hill chicken from behind. Hill chickens build their nests mainly in steep, sloping terrain. The chickens have to make sure that the eggs do not roll down the slope, otherwise the chicken chicks become normal domestic chickens .
The behavior of the hill chicken is described in various jokes, the chicken supposedly cannot leave its birth slope and falls down the slope when it turns around.
That helps to catch the hill chicken easily. According to consistent reports, it is annoyed when you call it as a hill chicken. If you approach from behind and shout "Hanghuhn, look" first try to find out where the call is coming from, whereupon it would fall over when turning around on the slope.
The hang chicken is one of those strange mythical creatures that belongs to the category of hunter's Latin . They rarely have anything to do with the mythical creatures of the legend , such as the unicorn .
Similar mythical creatures
Web links
- Curiosities in the animal kingdom of our local forests - the hill chicken. Sitzendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur, September 22, 2003, archived from the original on December 23, 2003 ; Retrieved November 1, 2011 .
- The Hanghuhn (exhibition in the steam engine museum). December 19, 2008, accessed November 1, 2011 .