so...chickens pretty much are all leg no ankle huh?
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I dunno..
Yes, they have ankles.
they have ankles, they just dont come in a 6-piece bucket
i dont know about chickens, but my quaker parrot does. It would only make since for a chicken to have them too. They are right by their feet, and unless you look carefully, you probably wouldn't notice them.
They have ankles. They can twist them or sprang it as well. I've seen my hens limping before.
Chickens are not like humans when it comes to skeletal anatomy. The joint that would be compared to a human ankle joint is the joint that you can see moving when a chicken walks, it bends backward and is right where the feathers stop and the scales begin on the leg.
The "knee" is high up by the breast bone, hidden by feathers. If you pick a chicken up and feel the leg, you will be able to tell where the knee is. The "hip" joint is even higher and more torwards the back of the chicken, at about the level of the spine. It is not visible from the outside of a fully feathered chicken.
Hope this answers your question. :)
Oh, and heres a picture of a chicken skeleton:
http://www.blackforestpoultry.com/images...
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