I'm really not sure this was a good idea

[Chantal]

Extract from http://www.barrybeelzebub.co.uk/ which admittedly is a satirical column...

"...then you can still revel in the brilliance of Britishness with the story of Vicky Mills and her one-legged chicken.


Mrs Mills, 24, was heartbroken when her pet Lily, a Rhode Island Red, got her leg trapped in a barbed wire fence. She took it to the vet and paid for him to try to save the leg rather than have her put down. When that treatment failed, she paid for an amputation. Seven operations later, further costs were incurred when the now one-legged chicken was subsequently diagnosed with depression, perhaps understandably.


The bill was rising, and Mrs Mills took out a bank loan, cancelled her holidays and lived on beans on toast for a year to pay it. And to ward off depression, the chicken now watches daytime television while her owner is at work.The cost of that one chicken leg? A cool £1,800. Cry your eyes out, Colonel Sanders. Still, there’s an immediate payback. As Mrs Mills says: “Sometimes she tries to scratch herself with her missing leg and falls over.” And you can’t put a price on entertainment like that."

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Chantal, i don't think it is for us to judge, everyone has different ideas on life.

It wouldn't even make a very good meal, having only one leg.

[Jenny Green]

I hope she recouped some of her costs and barbecued the leg they cut off.

[Chantal]

You two are incorrigible!

I'm just trying to work out what kind of quality of life a one legged chicken has. They're heavy birds to balance on one leg and also, daytime TV is such total rubbish. Being condemned to that for the rest of it's natural life it must be trying to hop into the oven.

I'll admit that if it was Rosie involved I'd probably do exactly the same thing, but she does have three other legs to get around on.