Ellington

This is the best article I've seen in a long, long time.

Sometimes a chicken does have lips, just not her own. Marian Morris saved her brother's exotic chicken, Boo Boo, by administering "mouth-to-beak" resuscitation on the fowl after it was found floating face down in the family's pond.

Morris, a retired nurse, said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but that she was interested to see if she "still had it."

"I breathed into its beak, and its dad-gum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. "I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm.'"

Now, beyond the fact the article actually quotes the woman as saying the word "dad-gum", I have three questions.

1) What exactly makes a chicken exotic? Fake boobs? Flowing dark hair? The smell of tropical flowers eminating from its feathers?

2) Did that article actually just say the exotic chicken's name was "Boo Boo"?

3) If you came home and the pet chicken was floating face down in the pond out back would your first thought be "I want to put my mouth on it"?

Because, um, I'm thinking that's a big fat "Hell No" on this end.

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104557

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Check this out: In Asia, chickens with striking plumage have long been kept for ornamental purposes, including feather-footed varieties such as the Cochin and Silkie from China and the extremely long-tailed (Phoenix) from Japan. Asian ornamental varieties were imported into the United States and Great Britain in the late 1800s. Poultry fanciers then began keeping these ornamental birds for exhibition, a practice that continues today. From these Asian breeds, distinctive American varieties of chickens have been developed.

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LatashaWillis

Date

2006-02-08T21:49:24-06:00

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104558

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1. usually a dash of cumin and some pineapple garnish 2. the fact that she's named that because she "scares easy" leads me to believe these people had very little in the way of chicken observational experience... 3. my first thought would be, mom was right, new york is no place for a pet chicken...

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L.S.

Date

2006-02-09T18:53:44-06:00