They named it J-Lo!

Last night my sister Michelle (who lives in Cleveland) sent me the following news story.

This news takes place in my local area of Ocala, Florida and is about a chicken with two rear ends.

Cindy and I hadn’t even read the story yet, and we began discussing it based on the link text. Being the kind-hearted gal she is, Cindy felt sorry for the chicken. Being the ever-hungry devourer of egg and fowl that I am (they call me El Voraz Devorador de Pollo), I wondered if this hexed hen could lay twice the normal number of succulent eggs.

Since the chicken appears to be the result of a natural mutation, I don’t feel any special pangs of sympathy for the critter – it’s not as if it’s the unfortunate result of a diabolical gene-splicing experiment gone wrong.

If this hen and others like it could be bred with similar roosters, we might end up with super egg-layers within a few short delicious generations.

After reading the story, we discovered the chicken does not lay two eggs at the same time (which apparently is better for the chicken, since twice the eggs would mean a calcium deficiency – but could we not give the chicken supplements?).

Raising half the number of chickens means fewer to care for while maintaining the same egg production - this should equal more resources for the chickens, and hopefully better conditions, more elbow room (wing room?) in the pens, and etc.

Thoughts?

You owe me one

Go! Get some! Thank me later!

(You might need some chicken, too! And an egg.)
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Early Morning Cold Chicken

I'm at work.

I figured it was just as easy to get writing done at work as it would be at home. I don't really like the desk setup we have going on in the kitchen. So I'm eating Cindy's Sunday leftovers from Mimi's Cafe for breakfast this morning, hence the reference to cold chicken. We have a microwave at work, but sometimes I'm in the mood for cold chicken. Sometimes cold pizza too.

The home computer is still messed up, largely because I have stopped trying to mess with it. Ed's latest suggestion is to restore 'last good configuration' or something along those lines. I'd like to back up all our folders before I try any 'revert to old' steps - I'd hate to lose anything.

This will probably be a very busy week, about a hundred new issues were entered yesterday, and I'm sure there are plenty more where they came from. This project will not be complete on time, what project ever is?

So there will be overtime aplenty. Good thing too, my truck could use some new tires and it's running kind of rough. And the air conditioning switch is going out. The AC works fine, but the low-med-high switch only works on high. Better than no AC, but still.