Kevin Hurd reports: "The smoke detectors were not working, the people inside were asleep. That is, until the chicken sensed something was wrong."

  • Birdseed

    The sky is falling!

  • silkox

    I’m pretty convinced “the sky is falling” is an onomatopoeia based on the alarm call chickens make. Chickens have got it going on in the alarm department, but there are a lot of false positives.

    • http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

      They’ve got a number of alarm calls! 

      I’ve got a few narrowed down:

      “It’s that fucking egg thief again! C’mon how long are we going to put up with this? Good for nothing rooster just stands there!”

      sounds nothing like

      “big thing big thing gonna kill us all”

      which sounds nothing like 

      “there’s big thing that feeds us, I’ve spotted big thing that feeds us maybe coming this way!”

      • Antinous / Moderator

        You should totally write a contemporary fantasy series about a magic dude with an ironic telepathic chicken sidekick.

    • rattypilgrim

       What language would that be in?

      • Antinous / Moderator

        The Indian Cuckoo screams ‘one more bottle’ if you’re English-speaking and ‘the mango is ripe’ if you’re Hindi-speaking.

        • rattypilgrim

          Thanks, Antinous. I love learning how different cultures translate animal talk into their own language. One that I really like is the Blackfoot translation of magpie sounds: “Fly ahead and tie your bag on the next tree” or something to that effect and as reported by Walter McClintock a Yale graduate who photographed and lived Blackfoot people in 1896. He wrote a book, “The Old North Trail” about his experiences.

  • Snig

    He’s Everywhere, He’s Everywhere!

  • PhosPhorious

    “My chicken sense is tingling.  Must warn family!”

  • Narmitaj

    Wow. A chicken like that you don’t eat all at once.

    • rattypilgrim

       No, a chicken like that you slaughter a lamb for.

  • jimh

    Caaaaaaalll on Super Chicken!

  • Mitchell Glaser

    The chicken read the Fox polls, knew they couldn’t be right, and raised the alarm. Good show, Henrietta!

  • http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

    That line will also win the Bad Sex in Fiction award for 2013.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1241056813 Mike Meyer

    Edible smoke detectors.  What will they think of next?

  • rattypilgrim

    I’ve seen one of my hens defend her brood in the middle of the night from a fox  (she won) and if you raise them from chicks they become very much the pet. They like to sit on your lap and get stroked.  Never underestimate the power of a chicken! And you don’t have to remember to check their batteries every year.

  • Rich Keller

    Well, heck, take that chicken to the Norske Nook over by Osseo and buy it a slice of blueberry cream cheese pie for a job well done, why dontcha?

  • CLamb

    Disaster prevention scorecard:
    alarm chickens:  1       TSA:  0