Alektorophobia is the extreme fear of chickens. Those that suffer from Alektorophobia often fear either the eggs of chickens, their feathers, contamination, or being attacked by chickens on a farm for example.
A few reasons for these irrational fears include being pecked, swooned upon, that chickens roost above eye level, or fear of the fact that chickens eat their food off the ground or in manure (invoking a fear of contamination). These fears only occasionally apply to cooked chickens, but rather uncooked or live chickens.
Symptoms of Alektorophobia include feelings of dread, breathlessness, nausea, dry mouth, excessive sweating, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or even a full blown anxiety attack.
When I was little, these things scared me quite a lot but I didn’t feel many of these symptoms (except for thinking clearly, breathing, heart palpitations) but I felt this big curiousity for them (along with the fear) and I realized the only way to overcome that fear was to deal it. So I killed a couple of them (first by throwing rocks at them aiming to the heads, hitting to death with a club, stabbing them…) until I was able to snap their necks with my bare hands. It took me around 3 years to do it but it worked (I was 14 when i got over it) now I’m 19 and I don’t fear them at all (although I still have this huge curiousity for them..) and I know that it was an ugly way to deal with it but it worked..