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A chicken in Puerto Dorado.

"I guess...I guess I’d want to be back on a farm. There is enough money for me to buy a little farmstead of my own. I’d get some geese, and ducks, maybe some turkeys...chickens, of course. Couple of pigs. I love bacon and ham. And a mule for plowing, and some milk cows."
Robert Greene to Jack Sparrow[src]

The chicken was a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, there were more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

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Will Turner lies unconscious surrounded by chickens.

"Your countrymen ran like chickens before Guillaume le Conquérant!"
Etienne de Ver to Lucius Featherstone[src]

Chickens were often kept on board ships to provide fresh eggs and meat.

Fresh food was a luxury on the ships because it soon rotted in the tropical heat. Mostly the crew lived on hard tack (biscuits) and salted meat. The captain ate better and the ship carried a few live sheep and chickens for his table.[1] There were chickens in the hold of the Black Pearl, most notably during Jack Sparrow's second captaincy. After Jack and the Pearl were dragged to the realm of Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken,[2] Sparrow hallucinated many versions of himself, including one vision that clucked and walked in the manner of a chicken.[3]

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A pirate sits on a cage full of chickens.

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