BS: extra drumsticks?

Subject: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 01:50 PM

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — Henrietta the chicken was living inconspicuously among 36,000 other birds at Brendle Farms for 18 months — until a foreman noticed she had four legs.
"It's as healthy as the rest," the farm's owner, Mark Brendle, told The Daily American.

Brendle's 13-year-old daughter, Ashley, named the chicken Henrietta after the discovery Thursday. The bird has two normal front legs and, behind those, two more feet. They are of a similar size to her front legs but don't function. The chicken drags her extra feet behind her.

In 30 years of farming, Brendle said, he's never before seen a chicken with four legs.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-23-chicken_x.htm

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 01:56 PM

Do they live downstream from an atomic power plant?

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 02:18 PM

We had a sheep with 2 extra legs born in Dorset about 25 years ago.. I remember seeing a photo of it in the paper. The extra legs were growing out of its side and the vet reckoned it was a twin embryo that hadn't developed properly and was partially absorbed by the surviving lamb.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 02:28 PM

Friend of mine was a chicken rancher. One day a passer-by noticed that his chickens had three legs. The stranger went to his door and asked about these strange chickens. He said, "My wife, son and I each like drumsticks, so I began to breed them with three legs." The stranger then asked, "What do they taste like?" My buddy replied, "Don't know. We haven't been able to catch one yet!" And THAT is a true story.

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: open mike
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:04 PM

it does seem as if colonel sanders would love to clone her

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:05 PM

I got a real monster third leg myself............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:14 PM

Finger-lickin' good, right?

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:19 PM

I wonder if the daughter is studying music. "Henrietta" is the word I learned to use for counting four eighth notes.

Subject: RE: BS: extra drumsticks?
From: Bert
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:25 AM

Bragging again, Spaw!!!!