Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the
>> only place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't
>> look like the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>>
>> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.
>
>
> I used to subscribe to a number of poultry catalogs, the various
> types of decorative fowl are pretty amazing. Check online, I'm sure
> they are viewable that way now.

They had so many pretty chickens. Like the silkies, other colorful
kinds. They were there for judging, of course.

> A guy I knew here in Chicago is a theater guy, one time for NPR years
> ago he did a bit about chickens. After he graduated from college he
> and a friend decided to smoke pot and loaf all summer and so they
> rented a farmhouse, one of the things they did was buy a bunch of
> chickens, they thought it'd be neat. Turns out the birds were a big
> PITA for them, and they can get really mean besides...it was not
> exactly _The Egg & I_ scenario that they had dreamed of, lol...

Funny. If I had the kind of property where you could keep animals,
I always thought I'd have chickens (NO roosters). I just remember
feeding them corn or something, and collecting the eggs. As far as
mean, the pigs were mean, the bulls were mean and there was this
one spiteful horse. Chickens, not so much.

nancy