oh, and of course, i meant to say, HUMANE society. not human. doh!

anyway. there was a book of wacky chickens a few years back, i love those ones with the crazy beatles haircuts. always spend an afternoon at the MN state fair checkin out the chickens!

Love those chickens in the picture!  They're called Silkies, I believe.  So soft and fuzzy looking.

chickens at the human society? never thought of that!

i know in some cities, like key west, they have wild chickens! i couldn't imagine the noise from all those wild ones roaming around.

my grandma had them at her farm out in elk river but she only kept one rooster alive at a time (the others became DINNER), otherwise they'd fight too much. and the chickens lay eggs without roosters........

There's a family in my neighborhood that raises baby ducks. They get them in the springtime, their children take care of them over the summer, and then when the ducks have matured (probably in the fall?) they fly away. They do/did this every year as a learning experience for the kids. And now a chicken story....I've volunteered at AHS for about a decade now, and I remember one year my friend Kay and I were sorting books for the big book sale and all of a sudden we heard this tremendous crowing. I'm like 'what the....?' and Kay says, oh yeah, we have a rooster! It was being held down in one of the incoming animal areas. He was beautiful. I don't know what breed he was, but he was black with white spots and, of course, a beautiful red comb. He was loud though; he'd defiantly wake up the neighborhood!