Four-legged Chicken

[Dave]

from Ananova

Four-legged chicken

A Romanian farmer is hoping to make a fortune after a chicken was born with four working legs.

Doru Grigoras said: "Think of all the extra chicken drumsticks you can get off a chicken with four legs instead of two."

He is planning to keep the black feathered chick until it grows up at his smallholding in Dambau and then breed it to produce more four-legged birds.

If the breeding is successful he will sell the chickens to a fast food chain, and if not he says the chick could still make him a fortune through advertising.

Grigoras added: "Everyone from around the region wants to come to see my chicken. Apart from its extra legs it looks perfectly healthy, although it eats a lot for such a small bird," the daily newspaper 7 Plus reported.

I'm not sure about truth of this one, even though there was a picture with the story, because it used to be a Ken Dodd joke...

A man was driving North up the M1 (English Freeway) when he was overtaken by a three-legged chicken. He slams his foot on the accelerator and tries to catch it up, but the faster he goes, the faster the bird runs.

He follows it until eventually it turns off the Motorway and takes to country lanes. He follows it off the Motorway and through the countryside down smaller and smaller lanes until it turns off the road, goes under a fence and into a farmyard.

The man is curious and walks up to the farm. He asks the farmer if he has seen the three-legged chicken.

"Oh! Yes," replies the farmer, "I breed them!"

"You breed them! Why on Earth would you want to breed three-legged chickens?"

"Well I like a leg, my wife likes a leg, and my son likes a leg," replies the farmer.

"I see," says the man. "So what do they taste like?"

"I've no idea," says the farmer, "We've never been able to catch one!"