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Dot the Green Eyed Chicken

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Dot the Green Eyed Hen Herk and Stephanie Hancock lived in Conway,  WA, where they raised two kids, Cubby and Jaynie.  Herk was one of the better auctioneers in these parts and had great old barn in which he conducted mostly estate auctions and used a section of the barn as a second hand store where he managed to move a lot of his second hand merchandise ileft over from the auctions he’d held. They lived in a nice old farm house between the south fork of the Skagit River and I-5 interstate.   At some point, the kids talked Mom and Dad into getting a pet chicken. So they got a speckled hen and called her Dot, the Green Eyed Hen. There was a huge yard, the river dike, and a big parking lot attached to Conway Pole Co. next door. This meant Dad would have to build a chicken coop, which he did, but the kids were always playing with Dot in the huge yard which usually left Dot to wander around the place when the kids got tired or went off to school. The chicken then...
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Miracle Mike

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Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken Mike appears to be pondering the push mower. This segment may not be suitable for all my faithful readers, so be forewarned.   You may want to check out the photo's in the many web pages that contain a reference to Miracle  Mike to get the real story.   In the spring of 1945 on a farm in Fruita CO., Clara Olsen asked Lloyd,  her hubby, and go out do a number on  Mike.  He was ready to eat as  Clara had been fattening up ol' Mike.  Her Mom was coming for dinner, so Clara really wanted this to be a special dinner "just for Mom".  After chasing Mike around the barnyard a few times,  Lloyd finally scooped him up and took him to the chopping block.  Mike seemed to have a sense of something drastic was about to happen, so he put up the struggle for his life.  As Lloyd drew back the ax and swung,  he managed to catch Mike on his head, taking most of it off,  but lea...
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Rex

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So consider this chicken; Rex-Goliath Is this true or false? Rex-Goliath was no ordinary chicken. I first saw Rex some years ago on the label of a 1.75 lt. wine bottle.  According to the gal that brought Rex to a party we’d crashed. “This is some of the best Merlot I’ve ever bought for under 10 bucks a bottle, and its a big bottle at that”, she said.  After a few paper cups, I had to agree with her. My attention was also piqued by the gorgeous rooster on the label and the claim that he weighed in at 47 lbs. Over the next few years, I’d acquired a taste for Rex-Goliath primarily for the price/quality and the arrogantly artful rooster that stood out on the bottle.  Plus, in the right party setting, a huge chicken on the label of a wine bottle can inspire some very interesting conversations, particularly after three or four glasses of the stuff. Mostly disbelief, a few take it for granted that Rex is for real, but quite often the to...
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You're Entering Into the Wild and Wacky World of Chickens

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Going from the Kitchen to the Chickens A while back, Anthony Bourdain committed suicide, a terrible way to go and not well understood in the world of mental health professionals, especially for someone who seemed to have everything to live for.  I’d heard his name, but that was about the extent of what I knew about the man. I guess the main reason for that i s I'd never surfed the particular channel he was featured on. It didn’t take long to discover what I had been missing; chef extrordinaire , world traveler, writer, womanizer and all around “bad boy”.  A huge talent for sure, and a real shame that he is no longer with us. Since then I’ve watched several of his made for TV specials and heard that he’d written a book about many of his  exploits, in and around countless kitchens of the world and called it “Chicken Confidential”, I thought “Man, this guy must have had a real sense of humor”.  Turns out that his book was “Kitchen Confidentia...
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