Chicken & Other Birds

Chicken may be the world’s favorite animal protein. Certainly, it is one of mine. Low in calories, they are healthy and free range chickens (no chemicals) are certainly better.

During World War II, my contribution—unwilling—to the war effort was taking care of a brood of chickens: feeding them, mucking out the hen house, and retrieving the eggs. It didn’t seem to make them any friendlier that I was feeding them twice a day. I also learned how realistic the term “pecking order” is. The flock will select one bird and literally peck it to death if they are not stopped, which means isolating the benighted animal.