Pimpin’ out the hens…
Another weekend, another church fête. This one is small but good; we went for the first time last year.
In attendance was a chicken rescue – the kind that rehabilitates battery hens.
I’ve got to do this some day. If you ever need a pick-me-up, go to YouTube and search “battery hens first” – you’ll get videos of the first time a rescue hen sees the sun or walks on grass or has a dust bath. It’s so inspirational.
In fairness to the farmers, they sell of rescue hens at the time of their first molt. Every chicken in the world – even the most cherished family pet – looks like shit during a molt. Half naked, grumpy and depressed.
Anyway, they were offering chicken cuddles in return for a donation. I didn’t want a cuddle – who wants to hold a common old ISA brown when I have exotic chickens I can hold for free? – but I did want to give them some money. Just as I did, a little boy walked by with his mom and lit up like a Christmas tree, so I said he could have my chicken cuddle. Pictured above.
Chicken keepers reproduce like drag queens – by drawing the young into our squalid fetishes.
It was only later I realized the lady at the rescue thought I was trying to foist my roosters off on her, when I complained about my cockerel flock.
Posted: July 31st, 2023 under personal.
Comments: 4
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: July 31, 2023, 7:38 pm
Apparently the “little boy” is a Shark Week aficionado as well as an eager chicken cuddler. Small-brained animals are his life, it seems.
I wonder if he would have liked to cuddle a croc or a gator, each of those having small brains.
How do I know he is a Shark Week aficionado? His shirt decorations gave him away.
Comment from Pupster
Time: July 31, 2023, 10:29 pm
Guess who booked a beach house without coordinating with The Discovery Channel?
*points paw at self*
Luckily, most of the sharks are home watching so we good.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: July 31, 2023, 11:11 pm
Good that the chickens and the fire pit from last Friday didn’t coincide eh?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 1, 2023, 12:30 pm
I noticed the sharks; I didn’t realize it was official merch.
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