Your Working Boy and his flock o' hens were the stars of a cartoon feature in the current issue of D Magazine, our city mag. I thought it was pretty funny, even though they made me look like a Syrian arms dealer. Check it out here, or in a larger PDF format. Yes, I really did have a pet chicken I watched TV with. Yes, my kid Lucas really did ask Julie if chicken comes from chickens.
Crunchy Con chicken cartoon
Wednesday September 24, 2008
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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The panel with you and your pet chicken reminds me of family stories about my grandparent's backyard chickens. Only one of the chickens came up to the kids and made herself into a pet--my mom named her Henny Penny, and my grandparents called her "the smart one." She'd come when she was called and sit in the kids' laps. She's the only one that never ended up in the frying pan!
I didn't know we could do this in town. We had chickens when we lived in the country, but they were free-flying and they moved next door, because our neighbors had large shade trees. We used to get an egg or two a day; it was fun. If it's legal to do it in a north Dallas suburb, I may get a chicken. They make nice alarm clocks. However, I suspect the police will be called if we do, because I don't think it's legal.
Eric, you can have a small number of backyard hens in Dallas, but no roosters. Too many people raised hundreds of roosters in small cages for the purposes of cock-fighting, hence the rooster ban. Also, in urban areas, you're not supposed to run a full-out chicken farm in your backyard. It's not sanitary, for one thing, with backyards so close to each other, so you can't breed chicks. But a few laying hens are okay and within the law.
My grandfather had what amounted to a chicken farm in his backyard in Fort Worth; he had a hen house, one rooster, chicks, eggs, the whole thing. But that was in the 1930s before cities passed some laws about that sort of thing within city limits. Today, you can have a couple of hens, but that's it.
I can't wait till you get your own action figure! Fully Articulated Rod Dreher, with Crunchy Chicken Action Accessories! ; )
I second Sig's motion for an action figure!
What's wrong with Syrian arms dealers anyway? (Will I ever be accepted in polite society again??)
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