#chickens

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? ↗

— Seymoure Cray

#field #oxen #plowing #rather #strong

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#become #chickens #did #health #i

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cows #even #i #i think #leading

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#humor #humor

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#better #better off #chickens #know #off

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#chickens #eat #how #knew #never

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#chickens #day #every #every day #go

Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But then again so is a hen sitting on her eggs. The more I get to know chickens, the more I realize half our language comes from chickens. Well, not half. But an awful lot considering this isn't Latin or anything. Cooped up. Egghead. Hatch a plan. Henpecked. Pecker. Cock. Chickenshit. Chicken-scratch. A lot of chicken words are meant to deliver attitude, which isn't surprising to me now that I have chickens. Chickens aren't background animals like fish or sheep or horses. Chickens are in-your-face animals. Chickens if you have them, come to bracket your days. The rooster hollers all morning, and then in the evening the hens have left you their mysterious gift of eggs. Silkies are said to be excellent brooders, to have a tendency toward "broodiness." This, too, is usually meant as a compliment. ↗

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

#chickens #attitude