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The language of Chicken consists of four main sounds: pok, brawk,cluck and meow

Jim Geist sent us this photo – he says he did not make the lamp, he merely basks in the radiance of ownership. 🙂 If there are linguists or satirists among you, you will appreciate this – Jason recently sent me … Continue reading

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Chickens will eat anything but we haven’t any cookies to spare

Sometimes when I sketch these things, my chickens rebel and want to do un-chickeny things.  Why can’t a chicken have a Jungian unconscious? Probably because its brain is the size of a walnut just like a dinosaur’s. Still it’s fun … Continue reading

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The Chicken State Machine

While in Xbox I had the pleasure of working with Paul Tidwell, married to now-famous Seattle fiber artist Suzanne Tidwell . Paul was one of the chickens’ greatest fans (for which he did receive some eggs) but he was ingenious … Continue reading

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Chicken Oddities Around the Web, including techno classic

  Youtube link to this Chicken Techno Video Wandering around the Internet, you can always find chickens up to something. Above is the classic techno-chicken  giving the TechnoViking a run for his money. Meanwhile, chickens are saving  a Ugandan village … Continue reading

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The egg-laying process

This is the cranky look you get when you disturb Business Chicken in the middle of laying one of her blue eggs. Jason said he caught her sitting on Bossy Chicken’s head the other night as they were all nestling … Continue reading

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Just a chicken in an ordinary coop

Our chickens live in a rather upscale, high-tech coop. But I can see them yearning for more, stupidly, even as the neighbor’s dog eyeballs them for dinner. That word is “Gilt” not Sh-t or whatever you might be thinking – … Continue reading

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Can a hepcat be a bird?

A lot of times in the past year my work has taken me to San Francisco – the corporate or technology-driven side, not the Haight-Ashbury or funky California side. I hope someday to meet this chicken.

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Chickens in Space! – or at least social media

In my day job, I’ve  been known to speak and help people out with online community outreach and social media. You can imagine my delight  to find that a rubber chicken from NASA’s solar observatory group is in fact giving … Continue reading

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Chicken Diseases: Shy Chicken’s case of “Blowout”

I know, I know – everytime I see ads for Brazilian Blowouts it seems naughty to me too and I don’t want to ask. But if you are going to have chickens at home, you need to think about some of … Continue reading

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Madison Wisconsin Art Fair on the Square – more chicken art

As mentioned in a previous post, we aren’t in Madison WI for chicken reasons, but as usual, the chicken meme is unstoppable. This piece is in Anne Leuck Feldhaus Studio booth – note the vivid hues and whorl patterns! Chickens … Continue reading

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