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Owner must wait 8 years to 'retrieve' diamond from pet chicken
WPXI ^
| September 6, 2013
Posted on 09/06/2013 10:02:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
You've probably heard of the Golden Goose, but what about the diamond chicken? A woman in Britain is dealing with quite a fowl situation after her daughter's beloved pet chicken gobbled up one of her diamond earrings.
After taking the chicken to the veterinarian to see what her options were, she was told that the only way to retrieve the valuable rock would be to either euthanize the chicken, have it undergo a very risky medical procedure, or to just wait until the problematic poultry passes away naturally.
She's decided to wait until nature takes its course in order to save her daughter from heartbreak. Unfortunately for her, the average chicken lives for about eight years.
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TOPICS: Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chicken; diamond
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Fred ... did YOU put the rat poison in the chicken feed by mistake ?
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:04:30 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Solutions:
Chicken with dumplings
Tuscan Chicken
Chicken a la King
Chicken and Noodles
Chicken Balsamico
Chicken Tetrazzini
Grilled Chicken
Lots more one can do...
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:05:06 AM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Come on...............kiss the chicken good bye (say “hello” to your diamond) and have a nice family Chicken and Dumplings dinner to boot!
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:06:53 AM PDT
by
zerosix
(Native Sunflower)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
She's decided to wait until nature takes its course in order to save her daughter from heartbreak. Hey. The sooner kids learn how the world really works, the better. And the way the world really works is that when chickens swallow diamonds, they become chicken dinners to get the diamonds out.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:07:07 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a Sherlock Holmes story about gem in a goose: "The Blue Carbuncle".
Can't remember if the goose was alive or dead when it was hidden in it.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: knarf
“Oh sweetie, sorry about your pet chicken. It just walked into the path of my cleaver. But guess what? It’s chicken for dinner.”
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:08:05 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Chicken...I'm pretty sure that is where KFC comes from...
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:08:36 AM PDT
by
areukiddingme1
(areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Unless someone steals the chicken first.
Or a predator gets it. (I guess those are one and the same)
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:08:40 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Hmm...eight years of inspecting chicken poop just in case. I’m voting for Mr. Cleaver.
To: Calvin Locke
It was alive. In addition to a fine piece of writing by Doyle, it’s also one of Jeremy Brett’s best performances in the Granada TV production...
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:10:57 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
She's decided to wait until nature takes its course in order to save her daughter from heartbreak. Unfortunately for her, the average chicken lives for about eight years.(Bookcase falls) *SQWAWWWWKKKKK*... (silence)
MUM: "Oh, honey, what terrible luck, for the bookcase to suddenly topple on our pet chicken! Tsk, tsk!"
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: max americana
"Honey, the Beeb called. They want to put your chicken on UK Masterchef."
"Or was it Ramsay's Chicken Nightmares?"
To: Calvin Locke
"Can't remember if the goose was alive or dead when it was hidden in it."
The goose was alive, the criminal stuffed the gem down its crop. I don't know if that is really possible (it was a hefty gem), but that is how the story put it. Then the criminal - before fleeing - took the wrong goose from the pen and set about tracking it down. It ended up with a ne'er-do-well scholar who bought the goose from his pub's Christmas "goose club."
To: rightwingintelligentsia
What am I missing? Chickens crap all the time. Seems like it shouldn’t take too long to pass through.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:29:33 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: ChildOfThe60s
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:38:14 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I wouldn’t kill it either. I’d wait too.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:38:46 AM PDT
by
Pinkbell
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t take me 8 years to find another chicken that looked enough like that one to fool the daughter. Problem solved.
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posted on
09/06/2013 10:46:21 AM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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