While sorting out some files the other day I came across this intriguing one from an Associated Press article circa 1990. This should provoke a few more bad puns or maybe even a ballad

Women Revives Chicken

HARPSWELL, Maine (AP) – A farmer who revived a chicken with mouth-to-beak resuscitation said she was sure the hen was dead.

Janet Bonney said she thought Chicken No. 7 was dead when she found it frozen under her porch. "Legs up, just as though you had got her from the freezer at Shop 'n Save," she said.

Bonney tried to put the chicken in a shoebox for burial, but its frozen legs wouldn't bend.

So she used a hot water bottle to thaw the bird enough to fit it into the makeshift casket. She spoke to it, thanking it for all the eggs it had laid. She told it that she hoped it was happy where it was now.

Then Booney felt the first thump. She bent close and heard the first breath. Fifteen seconds later she heard another.

Soon she was giving it CPR – three or four thumps on its chest, and mouth-to-beak resuscitation. For three hours she warmed it and nursed it, until finally, the chicken stood up and clucked.

"She actually laid an egg last week," said Bonney who has renamed the hen Valerie for her valor.

Local veterinarians said the chicken probably had a severe case of hypothermia that made its muscles rigid, its heart slow down and its breathing all but stop.

Honest, folks, this is EGGSACTLY what happened,
Charley Noble