The Galligalaxy is a picture database about the Gallus gallus or chicken. This domesticated member of the poultry family, alongside ducks, geese and pigeons, pheasants, turkeys and others, is the most popular bird ever. As Rooster, Hen or Chick the Gallus constitutes indeed a commercially important source of meat and eggs. No wonder therefore that industrialization took over from domestication and that the chicken disappeared from our daily life into secluded barracks. Ever more people will only know him from the supermarket stores, plucked and cleaned, ready for consumption.

The Gallinophiles - or Chickenfriends - united in the club of the 'Friends of Chanticleer and Mother Chicken', asked the Belgium based Museum of Mother Chicken to produce this pictorial account of their beloved gallinaceans. Graciously housed by Wallonia, already the home of the Cock Hardi, the red rooster on a yellow field which you see to the left of this text, over ten thousand chickens run through the Galligallaxy and testify of their colourful and varied past and present.