ok.
Go read yesterday's comment including the article about the four legged chicken...
ok, link to CBC to read it under the diversions section today...
then read the following.
Having worked in the hatchery for some time in the past (a year and a half's worth of spinning yellow fluff balls) I too have come across the amazing four legged bird.
Let it be put to rest however, that they aren't that uncommon- it's just that they don't usually make it to the barn.
I would say on an average day of hatch, we would have 2 to 3 birds go by with four legs... I saw a few with four wings... I've even seen one with two bodies (only one head though).
Everyone loves the surprise double yoke when they are making a fried egg... these chicks are the double yoke that didn't work out quite right...
These chicks don't usually make it to the farm. Instead, we stood around the carousel chuckling at the chick in question, if it was a really oddity (like the one with the extra body) we'd pass it around, some of the older women rolling their eyes, one slightly crazy woman would put it in her pocket to take out for a laugh a little later... but they all ended up in the same place.... They make really good spray-on fertilizer.
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