...so I admit: Delila's new name is Samson. He struts around the yard with an air of importance, like he knows hes being written about on the web. His attempts at crowing are so cute and I'll be sad to see him leave our home. My #1 fan Shaman has been sending in chicken and duck jokes. They are sooooooo funny. Thanks Shaman. Here's a duck joke from moi.
Q. What's the difference between George Washington and a duck?
A. A duck has a bill on his face, but George Washington has his face on a bill! fa.
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Abby,
ReplyDeleteQ...Did you hear the story about the magic tractor?
...It drove down the road and turned into a field!
A hen that struts like a rooster is often invited for dinner!
ReplyDeleteThe rooster may crow but the hen delivers the goods.
The rooster may rule the roost but the hen rules the rooster.
The rooster makes all the noise, but the hen rules the roost!
Rooster games - willing to fight instead of trying to work out a problem.
Bible Riddles.
ReplyDeleteIn Judges 14:14, Samson bets his bride's relatives they can't answer this riddle: "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet."
The relations are stumped, mainly because the riddle makes no sense unless you know Samson recently had seen honey deposited by bees in the carcass of a lion, which he had--urk--scraped out and eaten. The relatives pester the bride for the answer, and she pesters Samson, who finally breaks down and tells her. The newly-clued relatives say to Samson, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?"
Love the chicken blog update! Samson reminds me of a singing group (The Jack de Johns) we heard at the Utah State Fair a number of years ago (when your mother was very young). Be sure to have her sing that song to you, if she says she doesn't remember it, then give me a call!
ReplyDeleteI think Shaman has sent you every chicken joke that there ever was, so you probably don't need to worry about him/her sending you any more. : )
Q...Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?
ReplyDeleteA...He heard the referee calling fowls.
Abby, I would like you to print this web page and read it several times. It's all about roosters, dogs and boys. I think you and your your mom should check it out together then read it befor every birthday.
ReplyDeletehttp://shilala.homestead.com/roosters.html
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” (Mat 26:34 NKJV)
Proverbs 30
ReplyDelete29 “There are three things that are stately
in their stride, four that move with
stately bearing:
30 a lion, mighty among beasts,
who retreats before nothing;
31 a strutting rooster, a he-goat,
and a king with his army around him.
Teacher: What’s the longest word in the English language?
ReplyDeletePupil: Smiles – because there is a mile between the first and last letters!
History of Le Coq
ReplyDeleteThe Gallic Rooster (Coq Gaulois), or cockerel, is the French national emblem, as symbolic as the stylised French Lily. From the very roots of French history, the Latin word Gallus means both "rooster" and "inhabitant of Gaul".
The French rooster emblem adorned the French flag during the revolution. With the success of the Revolution in 1848, the rooster was made part of the seal of the Republic.
Abby,
ReplyDeleteQ...Who was the greatest comedian in the Bible?
A...Samson. He brought the house down.
Bronze Gobbler Turkeys & Dominique Chickens
ReplyDeleteRARE BREED
Just like today, poultry was very important in the 18th century, supplying both meat and eggs. George Washington raised turkeys, chicken, and ducks and many of the slaves raised poultry as well to provide extra food for their tables and to sell at market to earn money. Chickens were also placed in coups in the fields or gardens to pick bugs between the rows of vegetables. Today, you’ll see a variety of colonial breeds at Mount Vernon including the rare breed Bronze Gobbler Turkeys and Dominique Chickens in addition to guinea hens and wild turkeys.
Flag of the Walloon Region (Belgium)
ReplyDeleteThe Wallon Region adopted its flag and coat of arms on 23 July 1998, as published in the Belgian official gazette on 8 August 1998. The flag is the traditional Wallon flag, therefore the same as the flag of the French Community.
The flag of Wallonia is yellow with a red rooster. The rooster lifts one of its legs, and faces the hoist. It shows the kinship of the Walloons to the French (Gallic) rooster, which is singing, head up and beak open.
In Wallonia, the flag is nicknamed le coq hardi (the bold rooster).
Abby,
ReplyDeleteA...What should all drummers eat?
Q...Drumsticks and beets!
Delaware
ReplyDeleteBlue Hen Chicken
Adopted as the official state bird on April 14, 1939, the Blue Hen Chicken had long been used as a motif in numerous political campaigns and in many publications.
During the Revolutionary War, the men of Captain Jonathan Caldwell's company, recruited in Kent County, took with them game chickens that were said to be of the brood of a famous Blue Hen and were noted for their fighting ability.
When not fighting the enemy, the officers and men amused themselves by pitting their Blue Hen chickens in cockfights. The fame of these cockfights spread throughout the army and when in battle, the Delaware men fought so valiantly that they were compared to these fighting cocks.
Abby and Daddy date,
ReplyDeleteRooster Cogburn, the movie
John Wayne reprises his role from True Grit as a hard-drinking deputy marshall. He teams up with a prim missionary to avenge the death of her father.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: PG
State Bird of Rhode Island
ReplyDeleteThe Rhode Island Red Hen became Rhode Island's official state bird on May 3, 1954.
The Rhode Island Red, Governor Roberts said, has become a symbol of Rhode Islanders all over the world.
Abby,
ReplyDeleteThe farm is in a flurry.
The rooster caught the flu.
His cock-a-doodle-doo,
Changed to cock-a doodle-choo!
Nesting calls. When a hen is ready to lay an egg, she gives a pre-laying, or nesting, call, inviting her mate to join her in finding a nest site.
ReplyDeleteTogether, the hen and rooster find and create a nest by pulling and flinging around themselves twigs, feathers, hay, leaves and loose dirt, after they have scraped a depression with their beaks and feet. But first comes the search.
Primeval grumbling growls and gentle squawks. When the rooster finds a place he likes (under a log, perhaps), he settles into it and rocks from side to side, while turning in a slow circle and uttering primeval grumbling growls which may or may not convince the hen that this is the place. She may accept it, or they may look for another site.
No bird has more than four toes except chickens of the Dorking, Faverolle, Houden, Sultan, and Non-bearded Silkie Bantams, all of which have five toes. In these breeds the extra toe arises above the base of the hallux and projects upward, never touching the ground. In the Silkie, the extra toes often lie nearly in the same plane as the hallux. Some birds have only three toes, while the ostrich has two toes.
ReplyDeleteChicken feet are a part of the chicken that is eaten in Chinese, Trinidadian, Jamaican, South African, Peruvian, and Philippine cuisine. Most of the edible meat on the feet consists of skin and tendons, without much muscle. This gives the feet a distinct texture different from the rest of the chicken's meat. There are many small bones which makes it difficult to eat for some; these are often picked out before serving. Being mostly cartilage, chicken feet are very gelatinous.
ReplyDeleteAbby,
ReplyDeleteEach year, approximately 4 billion pounds of chicken feathers are left over after processing in the United States.
Do you have any ideas about what to do with a mountain of feathers?
Abby,
ReplyDeleteI went to the doctor.
He said "You've got four minutes to live"
I said "Is there anything you can give me?" He said "A boiled egg?"
Abby,
ReplyDeleteDoctor, Doctor I feel like a sheep.
That's baaaaaaaaaad!
Abby,
ReplyDeleteWhen the upper beak is overlapping the bottom you will have to trim the upper beak. You can tell where to cut it because the beak that has grown over the end is normally a slightly different color. You can also look inside the mouth and see where the fleshy part ends. Then you take human toenail clippers and trim the tip of the beak off (one never needs to clip anything but the tip of the upper beak).
Leviticus 14:2
ReplyDelete2 “These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest:
3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease,
4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.
6 He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the infectious disease and pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields.
Psalm 51:7
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
John 19:29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.