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From the lens (True) Chicken Stories.

Do you have a chicken photo? Or chicken story? Or chicken joke? Or anything chickeny? (Except chicken recipes!)

If so, I'd LOVE to hear from you and maybe use it for my next book.

Or tell me if you liked this lens. Or point me to yours.

Or just tell me what you're having for dinner tonight. (Unless it's chicken...)

Anything!

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  • Geoffrey Campbell Aug 14, 2010 @ 6:27 pm | delete
    My Uncle Bob, who I lived with while he had a beautiful black fighting Polish rooster, named Ralph made friends with a wounded pigeon. Uncle Bob is a veterinarian, and though Uncle did his best, the bird never could fly again. He had quite a few barn cats arounds, they wanted that pigeon, but Ralph protected her. But one day, we found only pigeon feathers, and no sight of the poor bird. Normally Ralph loved the corn, but that day, Ralph desired nothing of it, as his constant companion was no more.
    He would follow us around, unlike the other roosters in the coop. Those roosters, when they got out, became food for the two dogs, or the wild dog we called brown dog. When Ralph found a way out and escaped into the yard, we thought, "Oh no, he is going to end up as sport for one of the dogs, and eaten. But he was an unusually big rooster, with big talons on each leg. I did not witness the fight, but his daughter Debbie did, and she told me dust was flying, but the dogs learned quickly this Rooster was not to be played with.
    And that is how Ralph ruled the yard for some years. I miss Ralph to this very day.
  • charlino Mar 14, 2010 @ 5:56 pm | delete
    I love chickens! I spent half of my childhood years on a farm, and we had all kinds of chickens. One year, my Mother got me and my brothers an Easter chick from our local Woolworth store. Most of the time the chicks never lived very long lives, as they were died pink, blue, green, in the shell, then incubated to hatch for the season. My first pink chick turned into one of the biggest meanest roosters on the farm. I named him after a friend of my Father's who was the biggest, meanest friend he had at the factory. That rooster was like the dog of chickens. He was my protector, and the 'cock of the walk' with his fifty hens. I believe my Mother knew that the chicks in the store would never have a chance to live anywhere but a farm, so she would pick the healthiest ones for me and my brothers for Easter.
  • shajo Jul 31, 2009 @ 8:34 am | delete
    I love your stories and these chicken stories are great!! I've never owned any chickens but it sounds like fun!
  • GramaBarb Jul 5, 2009 @ 10:33 am | delete
    I love chickens! We used to have Cochin Bantams.
  • clouda9 Jun 29, 2009 @ 4:16 pm | delete
    Best of luck on the sale of your book, the excerpts are great! Heading out to send you our chicken story ;)
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Jun 9, 2009 @ 7:00 pm | delete
    Awesome lens
    Thanks for sharing
    Lizzy
  • chickencoup Jun 4, 2009 @ 2:03 pm | delete
    Hey your two chicken lenses are great to read, i'm goin to check your book out
  • JaguarJulie Jun 3, 2009 @ 8:04 am | delete
    Ah, come to think of it -- I do have a chicken picture from our previous trip to Club Dobogomajor in Hungary. Those chickens there walked about with rabbits and peacocks! It was quite a sight to behold.
  • jasmineann May 31, 2009 @ 1:37 pm | delete
    Wonderful! I loved reading your lens. Also I agree with you about awareness raising of battery chickens. 5 stars and lensrolling to my chicken lens.
  • aj2008 May 31, 2009 @ 5:37 am | delete
    Delightful lens and Angel Cluckings, oops I mean Blessings!
  • Susan52 May 30, 2009 @ 6:20 pm | delete
    Oh, this is wonderful! I love your stories and the others, too. How exciting about the book! I don't have any chicken stories, but I do have a Chicken Dance lens. Hmm. Do your chickens dance??
  • dannystaple May 29, 2009 @ 11:07 am | delete
    I really enjoyed the stories here. Being a city dweller - I have not any real contact with chickens outside of a shrinkwrap. I found the expletive names quite amusing - I suppose I would have to read the book to find out why they ended up called that.
    Perhaps one day I may try bringing up chickens in Spain too - plenty more years in blighty before that will be a possibility though...
  • fanfreluche May 29, 2009 @ 10:52 am | delete
    Love it! Very entertaining! My 2 years old son just love chickens, so almost every day he drags me down the road to see the "cot cot" and he makes sure I don't forget the "pi" (pain=bread in french). I just hope the lady won't decide to have her chicken for dinner one day, cause my son will be too sad.
  • KarateKatGraphics May 29, 2009 @ 10:23 am | delete
    why didn't the chicken cross the croad? because he was too chicken ;)

    okay, sorry for that awful joke! Love your story and your lens! 5*****

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