September 04, 2004
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:A Chicken of a Different Color
We made our annual trip to the Goshen Fair today, something I've been doing since I was a kid.
the view above is from the ferris wheel, where I was slightly distressed to find some repair work under my seat that really was just duct tape and bailing wire:
We also saw some very unusual-looking chickens. I have to admit I am either gullible or ignorant to be unsure whether these are a genetic morph (as are common in the reptile breeding trade) or just creative dye work.
Those chickens are dyed. (Spray painted, actually.) Over the decades they've bred some birds with pretty impressive plumage, but none of them look like that.
James
Posted by: James R. Rummel on September 4, 2004 05:05 PMI vote gullible. Those don't look like natural colors to me.
Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on September 4, 2004 05:33 PMI vote with the posters above. Looks like food coloring and water to me. Dyed roughly in the manner of the average Easter egg.
Posted by: Michelle Dulak Thomson on September 4, 2004 05:53 PMDuct tape? Why would you.....
Forget I asked. I don't want to know.
James
Posted by: James R. Rummel on September 4, 2004 11:09 PMReminds me of a story I heard involving crazy Houston zoning laws, fluorescent livestockdye, goats, black lights, and LSD.
Posted by: Begbee on September 5, 2004 11:46 AMThe chickens in SoCal have been coloring their feathers in droves for more than a decade. Did these chickens have any weird piercings or tats? I'm not even phased by chickens with a platinum hoop through its left nipple even more.
Posted by: Brad Hutchings on September 5, 2004 08:00 PMWAIT WAIT ... I wanna hear the rest of begbee's
story.
Tom -- Chickens have nuggets, right? So is it so outlandish that they would have nipples too?
Posted by: Brad Hutchings on September 6, 2004 09:23 PMAh, duct Tape and bailing wire! Properly applied, you could tie down an aircraft carrier with those. The ferris wheel was probably stronger there than at, say, those badly-rusted threads...
Posted by: anony-mouse on September 6, 2004 10:06 PMThose rusted threads are properly seated with several layers of lead-based paint; no doubt of an industrial variety not used on aforementioned chickens.
Posted by: A Visitor on September 7, 2004 05:48 AMI think the chickens should be marketed more widely.
They could knock the pink flamingo yard ornaments out of their maket easy.
Posted by: j swift on September 7, 2004 05:06 PMWell, on second thought they would probably harass and drive the garden gnomes out. Bad Idea.
Posted by: j swift on September 7, 2004 05:09 PMComments are Closed.