Taxidermy Chicken at the Grant Museum

This is a film telling the story of the first taxidermy chicken at the Grant Museum of Zoology in London. The Museum is free to visit, and you can see this specimen on permanent display in the collection.
Chickens are ubiquitous in our lives today and are thought to be one of the most widespread domestic animals on the planet. Despite their great number, their relationship with us isn’t that old, chickens were thought to have been first domesticated around 4,000-6,000 years ago from Asian red jungle fowl. Since their domestication our relationship with these birds has been complicated, with their cultural significance being more than just a source of food, from Chinese zodiac to Christian iconography to Victorian entertainment in cockfighting.
Unlike many of our historic taxidermy specimens, we know a lot about the life of our chicken specimen. She died from old age in May 2017 at a free-range poultry rescue farm in Brighton with other chickens and ducks many of whom were rescued from battery farms. When she died, she was donated to by RSPCA Patcham to ethical taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long, who we then commissioned to create the new taxidermy for the Grant Museum.

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now i can have a chicken that doesn’t poo

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Hats off to the taxidermist ...