Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Hello Beautiful World!

Today I come to you as a chicken, more like a hen really. If I was a chicken boy

that would make me a pussy, get it? LOL, just kidding my beautifuls, I would be a rooster.

cluck-CLUCK-cluck

Do you hear me clucking? :P

Clucking is the sound mother hens make to talk to their baby chicks. These beautiful birds are very

loving and can make great pets. Hens are very motherly and even before their babies hatch, the mother

hen will softly purr, coo, or cluck to comfort her babies while sitting on the eggs. This helps the baby

chicks feel safe while hatching. Soon after they hatch, the baby chicks recognize their mother's sound.

The sounds a mother hen makes to communicate with her babies differ from situation to situation.

For example, "tuk-tuk-tuk" is the sound she makes to encourage her babies to eat,

and keeps her babies close by clucking a low-pitched sound.

But what is all this chicken talk about anyways?

Well, a few days ago, in an event that I went to I spotted a chicken wandering around.

What was my surprise when I realized that the chicken wasn't just an animated prop, but a real person!

Of course, I ran to it like a crazy goat and caught up to it and suddenly the magic occurred,

you know the magic of when two people stand still in front of each other and just gaze into each other's

eyes without saying a word... just making sounds to each other...

Bailizhi (momoyuyu) the chicken

Chicken: cluck

ME: aww

Chicken: cluck cluck

ME: aww aww

Chicken: cluck-CLUCK-cluck

Me: aww aww aww

and so these "clucks" and "awws" went on for a few minutes until we both realized we had attracted

a crowd wondering what we were doing. So without a cluck or an aww again, we both walked away 

in different directions. :P

Chicken Convinced He's A Dog

Now I do have two real-life stories about chickens to share with you, unfortunately, both are

very sad and end tragically but these two stories come to show how chickens can become

very special pets to us.

The first one is about my childhood.

As a kid, my mother once gifted me a small chick. I saw my little chick grow up to

be a beautiful chicken. My chicken would always follow me around and would get very excited every

time he/she would see me. One time I couldn't find my chicken pet anywhere

so I was crying looking for it. Suddenly when I looked into our neighbor's backyard, I saw the lady

neighbor, twisting my chicken's neck and killing it!!! :(

I began to scream and ran to my grandmother to tell her, I was inconsolable.

Later that night when my mother came back home from work, she told me that she had sold my chicken

 to the neighbor because it had gotten too big and she would be getting me a new baby chick 

to which I said NO! I cried and cried for days, missing my chicken and feeling my mother didn't

understand that it wasn't my chicken she had sold to the neighbor and had gotten killed,

but my best friend.

The second story is from Melanie King, one of my favorite Second Life photographers 

and it comes as a description of the last picture she took for her Flickr. A beautiful tribute to her four

precious chickens, READ IT HERE. Hugs her tight. ♥

But happy thoughts now my beautiful people. ;)

So the question of the day is why did the chicken cross the road?

A) Was it to get to the other side?

B) To go to heaven?

C) Because the grass was greener on the other side?

Ahhh, all good answers but before I give you the correct answer let me tell you where you too

can get your own chicken avatar for only 99L.

-CYRC- Chicken Avatar in MarketPlace

A fully rigged chicken avatar, for all your chicken being needs.

Includes a chicken noise thing that when worn you can click the avi for random chicken sounds.

::{u.f.o}:: Helen Raffia Hat not included. :P

By the way,

did you know that chickens can dream when they sleep and even worry?

They also have great memories and can recognize over 100 faces of their own species?

Eithaan & Elizabeth Dovgal (Her Flickr)

But back to our question, why did the chicken cross the road?

Well, I don't know about other chickens but the reason for mine was to be social since all the people

seemed to be on the other side of the street. Actually, more than social I was a nuisance to every single

living thing I came across with.

Chicken: Hi, what are you doing?

Chicken: umm, what are you doing?

Silence

Chicken: ok byeeee

Not much luck there, just kidding. Mr. Eithaan actually said hello to me first. :)))

And Mrs. Elizabeth was so pretty that I wanted to ask her if she could be in my Beautiful Women Of

Second Life section in the blog but I was too shy to ask. Now I wonder if she would have said yes?

By the way,

did you know chickens can run 9MPH and that there are more chickens in the world than humans?

Chicken: Hey lady what are you doing?

Chicken: I'm down here, what are you doing?

Silence

Chicken: Ok byeeee

By the way,

Did you know chickens are technically dinosaurs?

They are also very smart, and they also have great problem-solving skills, they comprehend cause and

effect, demonstrate self-control, and like owls, they have almost 360-degree vision.

Since I wasn't having much luck with humans, I opted for other options.

Chicken: See, it says right here that we are all chickens. You all are just ugly-weird-looking ones.

Seagull: Where does it say that?

Chicken: Right there, put on your glasses so you can read it.

By the way,

did you know that chickens are good teachers? They can pass on their knowledge to other chickens,

and like to play with each other.

So I got to watch the passing boats with the bunnies. Have lunch with the sheep.

It was really a fun-chicken day that I am hoping to repeat in the future. I felt more like myself

being a chicken than in my human avatar.... mmm, maybe I should just stay a chicken forever.

And finally,

Did you know that hens will mate with many roosters and after they can actually eject the sperm

of the unwanted ones if those particular roosters are not to their liking?

So there you have it, a new adventure like no other in the life of Lori Novo.

Thankfully, I had most of this blog post already written, just needed to work on some minor details.

Still feeling sick but just wanted to make sure I had something posted for you today .

Back to bed now. See you all tomorrow if I am feeling better.

Take care of each other.

Much love,

Lori Novo

♥