Chickens in The News!

I can’t believe this is a news story. But I have been to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and it has a Sonics, a Waffle House and a Cracker Barrel. Oh yeah, a whole bunch of hick white folk too! From the AP here:

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Sometimes a chicken does have lips, just sometimes 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.'”

Morris said she was pleased to find that the bird she saved was an “exotic,” and not just an ordinary chicken.

The chicken is called Boo Boo, because she is easily frightened. The family thought Boo Boo was startled and flopped into the pond.

You know, Arkadelphia is in a dry county. That means no Alkie-hol. When you don’t drink, I suppose resuscitating chickens is the next best thing.