Before we get into any of the frothing mass of bad nooze that has already piled up today–if we get to it at all (heh-heh!)–let us salute a bird named Peanut, recently confirmed by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living chicken.
“Peanut” is 20 years old. She was raised in Michigan by retired librarian Marsi Darwin.
My grandpa had chickens, but I can’t tell an elderly chicken from a young one. I am told a chicken normally lives five to ten years–so Peanut is a real matriarch.
Just another one of those little things God put into Creation to keep our heads from exploding…