Astounding! What was the motive of the chickens for “breaking up the fight”. Is that a chicken thing? We need some chickens like that in Iraq.
I’m not surprised at the aggressiveness of the chickens. When I was a kid, we had a Rhode Island Red bantam hen that was a sort of pet. It just wandered around the backyard eating seeds and worms, and laying eggs in random places where we’d find them weeks later emitting sulfuric fumes. One day a cat snuck into the yard, thinking about a free meal of bantam legs. She chased the hen into a corner, and the chicken turned around and pecked the cat on its nose. The cat took off running and was never seen again in our yard.
Isn’t the question why “chicken” has come to mean “cowardly”? But groundless stereotypes abound, about animals as well as people. I do wonder about the gender of those “chickens” — at least one of which I could see clearly enough to identify as a rooster — and whether perhaps chickens are enough less aggressive than roosters that the stereotype isn’t groundless.
Induct those chickens into the UN ASAP! Impressive and hilarious!
Comment by el Kib — April 18, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Astounding! What was the motive of the chickens for “breaking up the fight”. Is that a chicken thing? We need some chickens like that in Iraq.
I’m not surprised at the aggressiveness of the chickens. When I was a kid, we had a Rhode Island Red bantam hen that was a sort of pet. It just wandered around the backyard eating seeds and worms, and laying eggs in random places where we’d find them weeks later emitting sulfuric fumes. One day a cat snuck into the yard, thinking about a free meal of bantam legs. She chased the hen into a corner, and the chicken turned around and pecked the cat on its nose. The cat took off running and was never seen again in our yard.
Comment by rakkity — April 18, 2007 @ 11:53 am
I wonder, then, why they call them chickens?
Comment by michael — April 18, 2007 @ 7:37 pm
Isn’t the question why “chicken” has come to mean “cowardly”? But groundless stereotypes abound, about animals as well as people. I do wonder about the gender of those “chickens” — at least one of which I could see clearly enough to identify as a rooster — and whether perhaps chickens are enough less aggressive than roosters that the stereotype isn’t groundless.
Comment by jennifer — April 19, 2007 @ 1:04 pm