A weird thing happened today when we went to get our mail

[GreenPartyVoter]

Saw a gold blob off in the bushes, and when I looked more closely, it was...







a chicken! *lol*



Now I know no one in the trailer park owns chickens, so I called to ask the landlady if the neighbors had chickens. She said yes, so I walked down the road to report the whereabouts of the runaway.

Here's where it gets weird. The neighbor goes to her henhouse and counts heads.

"Nope. That's all of them here."

I peeked into the coop and saw that what she had was a clutch of young fryers. What had seen was definitely a layer. Took her over to the mailboxes and showed it to her, and she was quite surprised to see that old hen just sitting there in the shade. She didn't think anyone else in town even owned any chickens. *lol*

So she went home to get some feed to see if she could catch it and put it in the henhouse til Monday. Then she's going to call up the town office and see if anyone has reported losing a chicken! *lol*

[CanuckAmok]

1. "Hen kidnapped: fowl play is suspected"

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. *lmbo*

[roguevalley]

2. There's a rooster down the street that gets out once in a while. He's

called Blackie. I spot him and call him and we go back to his house. Lots of fun, chickens. I like them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I knew a teacher who had a pet one. I thought it was a bit odd

at the time. Never really saw chickens as pets.

Of course, watching FRIENDS made me rethink that position.

[Birthmark]

3. Good Lord!

You've stumbled upon Cheney's hidden bunker and blown his cover! Proud of yourself? :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. *LOL* And get THIS! When the chicken got up to run away, her

butt was bald and bright pink. I'd wonder if Cheney's is too, but I want to be able to get some sleep tonight. *shuddering*

[Bronco69]

4. ROFL!

Have you seen my chicken? Well, here she is! Take a good look at her! :-)

[juajen]

5. Here's my chicken story

My daughter waitressed at an upscale restaurant in a busy section of town. They have large window boxes outside the windows. One day a hen showed up for lunch, and nested in the window box at the front of the restaurant. She stayed for at least three days, entertaining the patrons and employees and getting fed a lot. Finally someone took her to a farm store and they delivered her to a farm. Why does the chicken cross the road, indeed, and how did she keep from getting killed? They all really loved her. Most had never seen a chicken in person or rather in fowl?

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. It would have been a riot if she'd laid her eggs there. *g*

Not a good place to do it, though. A bit exposed to the elements and more enterprising coons and foxes.

[Radical Activist]

9. You live in a trailor park where someone raises chickens?

I thought that only happened down here in Arkansas and neighboring states.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I live in a trailer park which neighbors the property of an elderly

couple who raise chickens behind their house. No chickens are roosting in the trailer park unless they are escapees. *g* I guess that's the Maine way to do it?

[Radical Activist]

12. Interesting

I lived in a very nice trailor in college for a while. We always had interesting neighbors. No one with chickens, but still some interesting people.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. We have a lot of college students here because the Maritime

Academy doesn't have room for all the upperclassmen. In fact, last year they were berthing students on the ship.

Most of the neighbors on our road are permanent locals, but the trailer right next to us has held students since we moved here.

The first year sucked, cause we had kids who played hip-hop at 2am loud enough to wake our neighbors 3 doors down.

Year after that we had a great family from Kuwait move in. I really miss them. It was lovely having another stay-at-home mom nearby.

And last year's kids were sweet. One of them kept locking himself out of his trailer, and one day wound up visiting with us for 3 and 1/2 hours while waiting for his roomie to come home.

Hope this year's neighbors are just as sweet! They can even have chickens if they want!

[Misunderestimator]

14. One of the things I love so much about Key West are the wild chickens

Recently they've had a population explosion and they are underfoot everywhere there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I like seeing the pheasants or grouses or whatever those wild

birds are that seem to get out of the way of the car in the nick of time

[Misunderestimator]

16. In Key West? I haven't seen those. Are you sure they aren't chickens?

Or maybe 6-toed "Hemingway" cats? :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Not in Key West. *l* I meant here in Maine.

[Misunderestimator]

18. Aha... that explains it... unlike NY where deer DON'T get out of the way..

Once I was driving home, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a deer running by the side of the road... it turned into the road just as I was parallel with it, so I swerved to avoid it... I managed to move far enough to the left that it ended up just barely hitting the back of my car (though it DID jolt me). I pulled over and looked for it, but it was gone. When I got home, I found a hair from it on my bumper... and thankfully, no blood.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. We have deer everywhere here, and have sadly hit more than one

that did not make it. :(

[Misunderestimator]

21. Sorry to hear that... that must have been very difficult.

I've been fortunate not to hit one.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Technically, I didn't hit them since I don't drive, but I was in the car

and that was bad enough.

(That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten my license yet. I live in fear of mowing down someone's pet... or kid. :()

[The Doctor.]

20. Driving in upstate NY

I saw a raccoon start to cross the road. It was nearly all the way to the right so to give it a little extra berth - I pulled a few feet to the left. At the last moment it ran BACK under my car and went splat.
"Stupid Raccoon, at least I know they do that."

No joke - 20 miles later another Raccoon did THE SAME thing. In the last few seconds I thought, "They can't ALL be that dumb."
So I gave him a little room and he turned and commited suicide just like the first.

Moral of the story - They're not good with cars.

[Misunderestimator]

22. I lived for seven years in upstate NY and never hit a thing...

Have seen so many dead animals on the side of the road though... and every time my heart sank.

[The Doctor.]

25. I was the evasion expert until that night.

Not one road kill in 13 years of driving. (plenty of close calls though.) And then all of the sudden - two in one night! It sucked. I can tell you it feels pretty rotten.

Take heart - eventually natural selection may not only yeild more 'street smart' deer and raccoons, but ones that are savy with public transportation.

[Misunderestimator]

27. Well, damn, then I'm glad I left after 7 years.

I had plenty of close calls too, and even those felt rotten. Unfortunately I think human technology moves too fast for their evolution to catch up to us. :(

[The Doctor.]

28. What? Ten thousand years of culture doesn't

refine and subplant five-million of evolution?

Everything we do is so fast - I do hope better minds get into good places so we don't blow the hell out of ourselves.

[Kat45]

24. I saw the Key West chickens on the news.

They said there are so many of them that they are in the towns. THey showed a chicken stopping and looking at her reflection in a store window. Said a lot of people like them around, others don't, and I think it said they were going to try to relocate them out of the town.

[Misunderestimator]

26. Yes, there is a guy who is being paid a certain amount per chicken

to capture them and relocate them. They relocate them to some other island in the Keys and then offer them to farmers. I think that they give great character to Key West (as do the Hemingway 6-toed wild cats) but I imagine they must be a nuisance to some. At least they are not slaughtering them.

[Red State Rebel]

29. "Slow Chickens" sign on a backroad near us....

I always wondered if the chickens were really slow or did they just want traffic to slow down....

[achtung_circus]

30. I blame the

poultrygeist

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. One of the main attractions in Oviedo, Florida are the wild

roosters and hens that hang around the Kentucky Fried Chicken. I don't know how they survive since the area around the Kentucky Fried Chicken is almost entirely concrete parking lot.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Maybe they are protesting? *l*