Only 1,550 miles of border is to be garrisoned by chickens against infiltrating Yankee viruses? Not good enough. What about the ones sneaking in from Alaska? Chickens in snowshoes with fur coats over their feathers standing shoulder to shoulder. Free range chickens heading North from Kentucky to safety in Canada...

Now if Benjamin Franklin had succeeded in his proposal to make the Turkey the national emblem of the States there could have been some very interesting confrontations.