Yes this is a chicken.

[toadfrog]

I raise a rare breed of chicken. Man is this thing uuugly. Maybe even real ugly. They are called Turkens or naked necks. Kinda looks like a cross between a turkey and a chicken. Full grown weight is around 9 lbs. Ya might get a giggle out of this. If Ya don't get sick first.

[JoeW]

:D I think you just picked all the neck hackles out for making jigs! LOL! If I were that chicken, I think I'd be hiding myself in shame under some leaves! Do the other chickens make fun of him? Best---- JoeW

[dugger]

IS it a cross wid a rhode island red?

[toadfrog]

Dugger , nope they are a breed of their own. My grandfather raised them when they first hit the states . Now I raise them because its one of the many things he and I shared . I sold my home on grand lake after he died and moved into this tiny old farm house because he always wanted me to live here. I crawled on these old hard wood floors as a baby . Now I'm walking on them as an aging adult. Now and then In the still of the night. I can almost here his footsteps going through the house out the back door to check the live stock one more time.

[dugger]

Man I just wish I could go back to the gramps little farm ,as a kid I used to plow -n- harrow wid old Bell, da mule , raised every kind of weird chicken who laid color eggs, turkeys ,ducks , hogs , rabbits ,milkda cow ,the works of a farm but I a'int ever seen a buzzard looking chicken like those ,I like em!.

[dugger]

Long neck huh!

[bass or bass?]

Dugger , nope they are a breed of their own. My grandfather raised them when they first hit the states . Now I raise them because its one of the many things he and I shared . I sold my home on grand lake after he died and moved into this tiny old farm house because he always wanted me to live here. I crawled on these old hard wood floors as a baby . Now I'm walking on them as an aging adult. Now and then In the still of the night. I can almost here his footsteps going through the house out the back door to check the live stock one more time.



I sure wish I could live on the old homestead again. It's back in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. The property borders Allegheny National Forest on one side, the Clarion River on another (across the river is Clear Creek State Park), and has neighbors on either side. It was my Grandparents property, then my parents moved onto it when they retired. But here I am in Arizona with a business and extended family, Dad died in August, Mom's 81, and I don't expect to ever live there again. But boy, do I ever have wonderful memories of hiking the forest discovering all sorts of wilderness wonders!

[toadfrog]

As long as you have the memories you can always go back there in your mind . You never really loose the ones you love . They are just over there a piece. Follow the trails of your mind and you can go there anytime.

[cwd]

That chicken brings back memories.
when I was a kid we had a couple of road island reds that looked sort of like that one.
I thought it was some kind of birth defect. Of course when they were butchered and in the frying pan their looks did not relly matter.
I sure wish I was back on the fam we had when I was a kid.
I learned to fish in the little creek that ran throught the property, only caught blue gill, but when your a young boy, you sure fell good catching them.
I remember my mom frying up a mess of gills, fryed taters and corn bread.
last time I went back home the people my parents sold the place to. sold it to a developer
and there is 15 houses there now.

chris

[bass or bass?]

That's sad cwd. :(

[cwd]

yes it is sad, However I have my memories and many pictures.
the saddest part is, the fact so many small family farms in America are being lost
to development.
I am glad toadfrog is able to hold onto his familys land.

[repair]

I have to ask Does it taste like chicken?

[toadfrog]

Not the kind you get in the store and not exactly like farm free range chicken. More of a game taste and texture. The brown eggs are large and absolutely GREAT!