Forzie the four-legged chicken will cluck no more.
The Te Uku-bred Barnevelder chick - hatched at Marlene Dickey's property at the start of last month - has died.
But it wasn't the extra legs that led to its death, more likely an extra anus, Mrs Dickey believes.
"He developed two bottoms and I think he got glugged up," she said.
While she was surprised by Forzie's death - he weighed a "good pound of butter" and was gaining feathers slowly - it was not totally unexpected, she said.
And it was fun while it lasted.
"He was a bit of a laugh."
Looking ungainly on its extra legs but twice as cute, the bird was an exception to the rule that chickens with defects are not normally born alive.
He was found dead on Friday and is now in the Dickeys' freezer waiting to be stuffed.
After he's been to the taxidermist, the family plan to donate the bird to Auckland Museum.
Is there any point to this thread? Or to 'cut and paste' threads in general?
11-19-2006, 14:44
Pannonian
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
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Originally Posted by Adrian II
:dozey:
Is there any point to this thread? Or to 'cut and paste' threads in general?
They're amusing tidbits to the general diet of political discussion. Stuff whose spirit belongs to the Frontroom, but whose material sends it to the Backroom.
11-19-2006, 15:01
Adrian II
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
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Originally Posted by Pannonian
They're amusing tidbits to the general diet of political discussion. Stuff whose spirit belongs to the Frontroom, but whose material sends it to the Backroom.
Unless there is a wider point to be made, your double-barrel chicken belongs in neither.
Headless chickens like us do belong in the Backroom, that much I understand.
11-19-2006, 21:09
GoreBag
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
Throw a fit, Adrian.
11-19-2006, 21:10
Byzantine Prince
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
This is bleepin stupid.
11-19-2006, 21:12
Kralizec
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
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Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Bet it was gay with two butts.....yup :clown:
What are you getting at? Are you postulating that an STD killed the chicken?
Anyway... the thing that made me cluckle in the thread was that it said that he weighed, "A good pound of butter," as opposed to a good pound of what?
11-20-2006, 16:13
caravel
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
Must be the result of another partially formed bird getting fused with that one. for a minute there I thought they were going to eat it...
11-21-2006, 05:30
Divinus Arma
Re: Extra anus kills four-legged chick
I would suspect that a similar defect would be voluntarily selected, if given the option, here in the United States. I admit that the population would be small, but one that exists nevertheless. The surgical requirements of this defect make it untenable given the surface area required, though a natural overgrowth of these areas would lend a hand.