Alvin, I read this and kept thinking of Norman Bates! Tasted good!

thanks peregrin, nope, different kind of chick

Alvin - this ran like a head with its chicken cut off. The "old country" people where I grew up raised chickens for food. I was always fasinated to see them fully animated with their pea brain seperated from their body. Actually they just cut the neck and let them bleed out but they still jumped around a lot. And yes it is Bates like in a disturbing kind of way - as if Norman was never disturbed. My wife's sister lived on a small farmstead in souther Minnesota. They raised chickens and slaughtered them to sell to their friends and neighbors. I was visiting there once when they harvested the brood. They actually had wooden boxes that were open on both ends nailed about six feet up on the rafters of the basement. The boxes were wider at the top than the bottom. The fowl were place upside down in the boxes. It was my neice's job to cut the throats. Then a water hose was used to usher all the drippings toward the center of the basement where there was a drain. The odd sized boxes kept them fairly still while they expired. It was a family enterprise and I was recruited to help out that one time. I was all good until I went with my brother in law to the rendering plant where they disposed of the feathers and non eatable innards. That was the worse smelling place my nose was ever exposed to. That was really the only bad part of the whole deal. Heck - I coud do it again - I'm not chicken.

Sir Alvin, this is great, and the line about the chicken being remote-controlled was indeed a dream scream!

Nice, very funny, alvin. I too remember when my older relatives cut the chicken's head off...went running around the whole farm. Thank goodness I was never recruited to help out. 5's

Some humorous fowl play here, Sort of KAC..Kentucy Axed Chicken

thanks guy...never lived on a farm so i was spared...thanks ChickRunnin'Wild...glad you were disturbed..lol...thanks adagio...gee, i missed a lot living in the city...thanks AFW...kentucky axed chicken...lol

This may be why the chicken crossed the road, to get away from your axe, This is meaty and it's good.

thanks pete....i DO eat chicken, but i can't handle eating it off the bone and i sure as heck couldn't kill one

A century or two ago, chopping off a chicken's head before cooking it was a commonplace event. Today most of us don't know what our dinnners really consist of. Thanks for linking our dinner table to the farm in a humorous way, Alvin.

thanks john....many folks would be vegans if they had to kill their own dinner

Loved the clue/cue lines!