CHICKENS

[Igor Loving]

Having raised chickens for years they are probably molting. The way around 
this is to have different breeds of chickens. I preffer having Aracaunas and 
Bantums. bantums fyl well which I think is muy cool and played into my 
"Chicken Flying" career in the seventies.

I was in charge of the Texas Chicken Flying Association which was at the 
time a member in good standign of the International Chicken Flying 
Association base in Galipolis Ohio.

For awhile there were sanctioned events state wide. Del Rio, Austin, 
Oatmeal, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Galveston, and so forth. THe championship 
of Texas was in San Antonio twice and in Luckenbach thrice. In San Antonio 
you bring a chicken you get in free. THere were 80 entries. Some guy entered 
a hawk with a waddle attached, a fake chicken? It flew to the top of the 
Tower of the Americas and was never seen again. Another fake chicken was a 
dove with pasted on waddle that flew well but not as well as the hawk.

Kung Flewk was and is the champion of Texas. She flew 356 feet at Luckenbach 
and was entered in the International even in Ohio. Due to airline screw ups, 
Braniff sent Kung to Atlanta instead of Huntsville W.Va. She arrived with 
jet lag and wasn't able to perform well though she made CBS news and CBC and 
Sports Illustrated.

The chickens would sometimes escape and reproduce. Round Rock for  years had 
a ferrel chicken problem caused by escaped flyers. At one point the chciekns 
had mulitplied into three or four flocks of twenty plus and they were 
destroying gardens. The animal control guys were at a loss as to how to 
catch the chickens...


Aloha:
Igor



>From: Pepi Plowman <pepstoil at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: CHICKENS and MUSIC or MUSIC and CHICKENS - seriously
>Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Keep us posted on results.  There are lots of reasons
>hens won't lay.  Are they molting?
>pep
>--- Wayne Smith <smitty78659 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Pepi, I'll give that a try next time I'm out
> > visitng my Son I'll bring YOU some
> > eggs..............Wayne S.
> >
> > Pepi Plowman <pepstoil at yahoo.com> wrote:Several
> > suggestions from the peanut gallery:
> >
> > Indian ragas from Madeleine, I suggest Mozart or
> > Vivaldi--but Madeleine says that's too jazzed up.
> > Maybe some African sukka--or Brazilian bossa nova.
> > Calm music--how about an environmental music, like
> > sound of rain, surf, waterfalls? Piano pieces like
> > Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) or Claire de Lune
> > (Debussy)? Just tune in KPFA 89.5 and see what
> > happens? I doubt they would get off on Prokofiev or
> > Stravinsky, though.
> > pep
> > --- Wayne Smith wrote:
> > > I'm serious - O>K - Somewhere out there one or
> > more
> > > of you have degrees in Biology - Right ??? Well
> > > here's one for the books, just back from the Feed
> > > Store and over heard a conversation having to do
> > > with keeping a radio (music) on all the time.
> > Seems
> > > there are certain kinds of music that keeps
> > chickens
> > > calm therefore they lay better....Could this be
> > true
> > > or like everything else just a bunch of chicken do
> > > do.........If this bs is true what kind of music
> > > would or could work best ? I await the wisdom of
> > > the ages.............Wayne S. (The Baron of
> > course)
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