Poison-detecting poultry fried by Kuwait's sand, heat

ocregister.com ^ | March 15, 2003 | GORDON DILLOW

[Rebelbase]

"Alpha Annie" didn't survive her deployment to the Kuwaiti desert with the U.S. Marines. But at least it wasn't NBC that killed her.

Alpha Annie was a chicken, one of the now famous Kuwaiti chickens that were purchased by some Marine ground combat units here to help provide a backup for the high-tech nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) detectors each Marine company is equipped with. It was sort of a modern-day canary-in-the-mine-shaft concept.

[Rebelbase]

Chickens and heat don't mix.

[ken5050]

FYI, in another story about the same topic, the Marines refer to the fallen fowl as "KFC".....Kuwaiti fried chicken....

[knak]

KFC?

[knak]

shoot you beat me to it!

[cateizgr8]

PETA is going to have fun with this one.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

fried with seven secret herbs?

[Reeses]

The turken breed of chicken stays cooler:

[Consort]

Use the Dixie Chicks.

[MEG33]

LOL!

[SuziQ]

Use the Dixie Chicks.

You mean the Vichy Chicks?

[timestax]

Use the Dixie Chicks. You mean the Vichy Chicks? 11 posted on 03/15/2003 4:30 PM PST by SuziQ [

DITTO !!

[poindexter]

Let's see....they bought chickens so that if the chickens died, they would know they were being gassed. Then the chickens died, and now they're saying it must have been the heat or dust or something.

Hmmmm.......