Zombie Chickens

And you thought there wasn't any life left in that 'ol spent hen. Guess again.

Chickens that have lost their usefulness to chicken farmers have to be, shall we say, administered to. The cold reality in the chicken world is when you can't make the grade in egg production there just isn't room for you.... anywhere. Many chicken farms take these "spent hens" and put them in a box filled with carbon dioxide and then bury their lifeless bodies to make compost. Some of these chickens aren't "euthanized" properly and they "come back to life" and crawl out of the compost pile. These crawlers are call ZOMBIE CHICKENS!

Let's get a few things straight here. If you are euthanized you are dead. If you are dead you can not crawl out of your grave.... you can't crawl anywhere... only live chickens crawl out of their grave. So the chickens that are called zombie's are really chickens that should be dead but are not either for tenacity on their part or stupidity on the part of the human who was supposed to euthanize the creature. In either case it doesn't speak well of chicken farmers.

There are a bunch of folks that are pretty upset with zombie chickens. It upsets some that they were not killed correctly. It upsets others that they are being wasted in a compost pile. And still others think they should be put out to pasture and live happily ever after. I don't know exactly which group I would line up after but I certainly don't want to be seeing a bunch of ZOMBIE CHICKENS cruz'n the 'hood. Did you ever hear the story about the chicken heart, lubdub, lubdub....