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  • Chicken meat production... : a price that's too painful to pay... / Friends of Animals Under Abuse (FAUNA).
  • A microCT 3D reconstruction of a 10-day-old chick embryo, as seen from the right hand side. The inner ear is depicted, with the semicircular canals (the body's balance organ) and the cochlea (which converts sound waves into electrical impulses) shown in green. The otic capsule, a cartilaginous structure surrounding the inner ear which develops into part of the sphenoid bone, is shown in blue.
  • A market with people buying and selling bread, eggs and chickens. Chromolithograph by H. Moulin after Ferdinand Séré.
  • A fox, having just killed a chicken, is surprised by a hound. Mezzotint by C. Turner after F. Snyders.
  • The facts : poultry farming / The Chickens' Lib Campaign, Animal Aid in association with The National Society Against Factory Farming.
  • The facts : poultry farming / The Chickens' Lib Campaign, Animal Aid in association with The National Society Against Factory Farming.
  • Three girls look at three dead chickens: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • Robert Coates riding on a large cauldren pulled by two horses with a chicken on his head. Etching by C. Williams, 1812.
  • Women preparing a chicken and washing their hands: protecting from avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2006.
  • Women preparing a chicken and washing their hands: protecting from avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2006.
  • Chickens standing on hay while ducks drink from a pool in a farm building. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A.G. Decamps.
  • A boy rides on the back of a pig scattering the chickens, one boy falls off and another cheers them on. Etching.
  • A fox talking to a chicken; representing a fable by Aesop on false friendship. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Poultry that are healthy as a result of taking Smith's egg and health producer (chicken feed). Wood engravings with letterpress (?), ca. 189-.
  • A chicken family in traditional Japanese dress entertain a rabbit in western dress: new year ornaments hang from the top left. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • Various birds: chickens on the ground; an owl, magpie and woodpecker on a tree; ducks and eagles in the air. Etching by C. Mosley, ca. 1760.
  • Benin: a healing ceremony during which patients are swept with brooms after their illness has been driven into some chickens. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Battling fowl: birds of various sizes are shown fighting, while a bird of prey swoops towards a chicken. Etching by W. Unger after F. Snyders, 1800/1850?.
  • Weak after illness? : He needs Brand's : In colds, chills, measles, influenza, chickenpox- all children's complaints, give Brand's chicken or beef Essence : 2/3, 2/9, 3/-.
  • A chicken-thief in Yunnan Province, China, punished by being attached to a tree by his arms, watched by a crowd of people. Halftone after F.W. Carey.
  • A girl holds a chicken on a plate as a man washes his hands: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • A fox in a monk's habit is apparently deeply engrossed in praying while it approaches the chicken run outside the monastery. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • A girl holds a chicken on a plate as a man washes his hands: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • Two foxes killing and carrying away a goose and a chicken while a cockerel is watching on sitting on a fence post. Etching by J. Tookey after J. C. Ibbetson.
  • A man brings a live chicken to a pregnant woman about to prepare a nutritious meal: The Bauchi State Mothercare Project in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • Benin: a healing ceremony during which patients prepare for their illness to be driven into the chickens they are holding, who will then be sacrificed to the god Legba. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Men and women in smart city clothes are picking their way across a farmyard with chickens and dung; in the background there is a garden much more to their taste with a grotto and statues. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A woman doing her needlework next to a sleeping infant with an elderly couple in the background feeding chickens and resting, while a farmer is tilling the soil in the far distance; representing the Golden Age. Stipple engraving by G.S. & J.G. Facius after B. West.