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April 19, 2006

Whistling Girls & Crowing Hens

We had a few hens over the years that did this:

The pet, called Freaky, spent eight months laying dozens of eggs until she crowed like a cock bird one morning.

Over the next few weeks, she sprouted a scarlet comb, grew red flaps called wattles under her chin and tufty tail feathers - all attributes of cockerels.

Ours never lasted long enough to make the news. Mom would chop their heads off and we'd have them for Sunday dinner. She always said a crowing hen was bad and unnatural, and so you needed to kill them ASAP.

Which I guess was the origin of this old saying:

Whistling girls and
Crowing hens
Always come to
Some bad ends.

Posted by Rita at April 19, 2006 09:33 PM

Comments

There's a bad joke in here somewhere; I just know there is.

Posted by: Craig at April 20, 2006 06:21 PM

Did you name the chicken "Coulter"?

Posted by: Tim at April 25, 2006 04:16 AM

Ask and ye shall receive, eh Craig?

Tim, you're obviously unaware of Rule #1 of farming: Never name what you're going to eat.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 25, 2006 09:23 AM

Oh and btw Tim, don't assume just b/c I'm conservative that I'm a Ann Coulter fan.

I'm definitely not.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 25, 2006 09:24 AM