What order does a chicken belong to?

Answer 1

Chickens belong to the order Galliformes. This order includes other ground-feeding birds, and comprises five families:

• Phasianidae, which includes chickens, quails, partridges, pheasants, turkeys and grouse
• Odontophoridae, which is just made up of the New World quails
• Numididae, which are guineafowl
• Cracidae, the chacalachas and curassows
• Megapodiidae, meaning mallee fowl and brush-turkeys, which incubate their eggs in the ground. These birds are found only in the Australasia region.

The family of the chicken is Phasianidae.

The sub family is Phasianinae.

The Genus is Gallus.

Answer 2

A chicken belongs to the order Galliformes, which includes other birds like turkeys, quails, and pheasants.