Wet chicken

"...she was mad as an old wet hen, up all night a-wonderin' where I'd been..."

Our latest podcast, "Weird Recycling," featured Carlos Ayala, the Vice President of International at Perdue Farms. Stephen Dubner's interview with him centered on chicken feet -- or chicken paws, as they're called in the industry. Until about 20 years ago, paws were close to value-less for a U.S. chicken company. But thanks to huge demand in China, paws have become big profit centers. The U.S. now exports about 300,000 metric tons of chicken paws every year. Perdue alone produces more than a…

Owl Aztec, four months old, lives at the Scottish Owl Centre in Whitburn, West Lothian, and had his first experience of the rain on Sunday.

The Frizzle Bantam is a very friendly Cochin variety. Its egg production is low. It typically lays only 1 brown egg per week.

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Fowl Pox is a very painful slow-developing viral infection affecting both chickens and turkeys. It is quite common throughout Australia, especially in summer, when flies and mosquitoes are everywhere. There are two types of fowl pox: wet and dry. A chicken can be infected with one type or the other, or even sometimes both at the […]