Should chicken wings, be chicken arms? (Details)

“Chickens can’t fly”.
Says who? People here cut the wings off so the chickens can’t fly into someone else’s yard.

^Maybe they cut thier feathers?

@Sneki95 . But they don’t fly like other birds right? Otherwise they’d just fly off somewhere,right?

They are wings because they are attached to a bird, and do not have hands.

After some thought. I think Ostrich “wings” are a bigger abuse of the word…

Loli. Lots of things that aren’t birds have “wings.”

Does an arm “have” to have a hand? Bat wings have fongers,or even hands,in some species…. to me, the word “wing,” has to do with flight.

Actually all birds have “arms”. Just look at their skeletons.

To me though, “wing” has more to do with an “arm” that doesn’t shape like an arm.

An arm and a wing have one big difference: and arm serves for grabbing and holding things, and a wing serves for flying. Therefore, an arm cannot be used for flying, nor can a wing be used to grab things.

So,

If it stands where arm should, but does not serve the main function of an arm, then it’s a wing.
Or a leg, if it serves for walking, like in quadrupedal animals.

If a chicken has an arm, but can’t grab anything with it, and does not use it to walk, then it has a wing, even though chickens don’t fly that often.

Besides, every other aspect of a chicken shows it’s a bird without a doubt. Therefore, it can’t be an arm, for birds don’t have arms, but wings.

It may not serve it’s main purpose like in other species, but it doesn’t serve a purpose of any other body part, so it cannot be called any other body part.

The word “wing” does not, in itself, insinuate flight. And yes, chickens can fly. Not very far perhaps, and not very fast nor very high, but they can fly.

@Sneki95

I don’t know about you, but I grab things with my hands (and sometimes with my feet), not my arms.

I confuse hands and arms all the time, it’s the same thing in my language.

Imagine how obnoxious roosters would be to the other animals if said roosters had hands!

There once was a farmer who had chickens that wouldn’t lay eggs.
“What can I do?” the farmer inquired.
“Get a rooster.” someone told him.
So he did.
Soon all of his chickens were laying eggs, and everywhere the farmer looked, there was the rooster chasing the hens.
“Maybe you better slow down a bit,” the farmer told the rooster. “You’ll kill yourself!”
“No way”, the rooster replied, “I can handle it.”
The next day the barnyard was again full of eggs and the rooster was seen chasing the cats, dogs, and goats.
“Boy howdy,” the farmer said to the rooster, “I still think you need to slow down!”
“No problem”, said the rooster, “Taint nothin’.”
The day after that, the farmer saw that all of the animals on the farm were scared to death of the rooster and he was now chasing after the horses and cows.
“Land O’ Goshen!” the farmer exclaimed. “You do have a death wish to keep up this pace.”
“Pish-posh,” the rooster snorted, as he eyed a squirrel high in the tree.
The very next day, when the farmer looked out his kitchen window, there lay the rooster, belly up in the middle of the road.
“I knew it, I knew it, I knew you’d kill yourself if you didn’t slow down,” squealed the farmer as he ran out of the house to see up close the destruction the rooster had wrought upon himself.
“Shhhhhh!”, the rooster whispered, pointing to the sky.
“Buzzards!”

^Well… Anybody know what that was about? I came back to scorched earth here. I’ve asked about,and said some pretty controversial things. I didn’t know people were so passionate about chicken wings…

Well, back to the original topic…

Chickens can fly! I’ve seen it! Flocks of chickens raised for eggs or food usually have their wings clipped. I have seen feral flocks roost in trees, flying low from branch to the ground. They’re not great flyers, but I think they would be in the same class flightwise as grouse or other ground fowl.

-

No