Dave Bevan / Juvenile Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) raiding a chicken nest in a barn, filmed at night using an infra red camera, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, December.

LYNN M. STONE / Free-range New Hampshire rooster, by corn pile in snow-covered field. Higganum, Connecticut, USA.

Ernie Janes,Ernie Janes / Newly hatched ducklings with eggs.

Laurent Geslin / Amara man selling garlic and chicken beside road, North Ethiopia, 2006

Ernie Janes / Ebdem Geese Goslings at four days

Ernie Janes / Bantam hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) close up sitting on chick, Norfolk, UK, April.

Ernie Janes / Five newly hatched chicks in a row

Daniel Heuclin / Cocks fighting in cock fight, Guimaras island, Philippines, February 2007

Mark Taylor / Portrait of a Partridge Pekin Bantam.

Ernie Janes / Three Domestic ducklings in green wooden shed

Ernie Janes / Four Domestic ducklings and one duck egg

Ernie Janes / Aylesbury ducks following in a line on village green, Weedon, Buckinghamshire, UK, October