Gretchen turned me from a hater to a lover. What greater tribute can I give than that? For years, pre-Gretchen, I urged co-op members not to get naked-neck chickens. No, no, no—anything but a turken. From day one, she changed all that. She drew me in and I couldn’t stop staring at her. Months later, when flock would come running toward me, I only had eyes for her. She stood out—glorious naked neck and all. But it wasn’t just her grotesquely gorgeous appearance: Gretchen was a curious, expressive, bold, and endearing chicken. I’ll always remember her.

Ok So maybe some of these are more like country blues but here they all are. Next step: lyrics.

“My baby flew the coop and ended up in noodle soup”
“Sunrise ain’t worth a cock a doo”
“My comb is a flop and my eggs won’t drop”
“When you flew the flock you made me a lonely cock”
“My legs so skinny, my butt so big”…
My wattles won’t wiggle no more”
“I’m molting and I look like Hell,”
“You cock a doodle do me so wrong”
“I’m all cooped up”
“Ain’t a drop in my shrunken crop”
“Don’t leave me cause I’m molting.”
“I cocka a doodle don’t”
“All you left me was feathers and fertilizer”
“When you left the coop you made this cock droop”
“That hen’s house ain’t no place for chickens”
“I’m to chicken to love love love you”
“I’m a rooster but I lost my strut”
“You flew the coop now all that’s left me is stinky poop”
“It might be the dust mites”
“My cloaca burns for you”
“I’m so angry I could molt”
“Nobody mounts me no mo”
“If I could just kiss your cloaca again”
“Feel like I been molting all my life”
“I’m broody and I haven’t laid for weeks”
“I got a sad sad tail”
“The Andelusian Blues”

Definitely Country/Western
“I got spurs but I can’t ride”
“Home on the free range”
“I’m so lonesome I could fly”
“You keep pluck pluck plucking at my heart”

The controversy rages: Which of the new roosters at Lucky Cluck is more fabulous? Have a look at these two portraits and you’ll know this is not an easy choice.

White-faced Black Spanish cockerels are not supposed to develop extended white lobes until their second year. This means that Salvador is prematurely sexy and will only get more so as time goes on.

Grotesuely gorgeous, The Darkon has grown into a massive and robust bird. Check the posting from June to see how much he has changed over the summer!

Every Lucky Clucker has been subjected to one of my latest obsessions…finding chickens in movies.  Not movies that exclusively feature chickens such as Chicken Little or Chicken Run but movies that have chickens in them.  These can be Hollywood blockbusters, Indie films, or documentaries…heck even Bollywood shows count.  If it is a movie and it has ‘chicken content’ then it counts.  I started this obession, or let’s call it a hobby instead as obsession makes me sound like a chicken lunatic and although some would say I am I would just as soon pretend that I am not until some later date when I am very old and it’s more acceptable to be called a crazy chicken woman.

Okay…so where was I?  Yes, I picked up this hobby about a year and a half ago.  I recall watching a few movies in a matter of a couple of weeks and every one of them had a chicken in it.  Now you are probably thinking that they were all epic drama’s (such as Braveheart) in which the obligatory flock of chickens running across a dirt road portrays the correct time period and even social standing of the movies’ characters.  Oh no, these weren’t epic dramas…they were just regular movies.  This intrigued me, to say the least, so I started paying closer attention and eventually I had to establish some rules of the game.  The rule is that chicken as food doesn’t count as chicken content.  For example one of the actors in said movie orders chicken fried steak from a menu…doesn’t count.  This is too easy and really as a Lucky Clucker I don’t promote the eating of factory farmed chicken.  The other rule is the chicken content doesn’t have to be an actual chicken it can be a story about a chicken or a nice piece of artwork that features a chicken or even someone acting like a chicken.  Another example to illustrate this point.  In the Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading actress Frances McDormand is in a plastic surgery clinic and the doctor is commenting on the crows feet around her eyes and her character responds that they aren’t crows feet at all they are little chicky feet and then she says chicky, chicky, chicky.  This is definite chicken content in a movie.  Score!

Now I need you to help me discover more movies that have chicken content…I’m going to start with a few of my favorites (not movies necessarily but favorite chicken content in a movie) in no particular order and I hope you will list some of your favorite Chickens as Stars too.

Everything  Is Illuminated
The Changeling
The Orphanage
American Werewolf in London
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Son of Rambow
Borat
Hot Fuzz
3 Needles
Pineapple Express (this movie sucks but it does have a chicken)
Darkon
The Devil’s Backbone
The Assassination of Jesse James
Slumdog Millionaire
Princess Mononoke
Hannah Montana (added by Lisa, Khem’s Cousin)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (added by Becca)
Dexter (a television show)
True Blood (HBO show)
Defiance