My friend Jenny Durbin keeps fancy show chickens as pets. Today I went to her house and played with them.
As a "city-girl" I had never held a chicken before. They are soft and even, dare I say, cuddly. You can sit and hold a chicken on your lap and it will coo and snuggle sort of like a dog or a cat. Who knew? One even laid an egg while I was there! It was magical holding an egg straight from the hen! It was all warm from her little body... Tonight I'm going to cook it for Tom!
My next "Marsie's Menagerie" column in the Community Press papers is going to be about Jenny's chickens. Perhaps you'll be inspired to build a coop of your own!
Until then...cock-a-doodle-do!!!!!!
