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♪romantic string music♪

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[chicken clucking]

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-I believe that people one
day, hopefully will understand,

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as I do, all
children and adults,

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how wonderful a
little chicken can be.

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All chickens.

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That they're not just a little
chicken in the barnyard to eat

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-- no, they have a
special personality.

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May you all have the
same joy I have had,

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knowing a chicken.

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[kiss]
My little soulmate.

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[clucking]

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♪idyllic string music♪

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[dog barking]

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-[Janet VO] We have a
lovely little saltwater farm,

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right on the Atlantic Ocean.

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It's a wonderful
place, and it's quiet,

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and we all love it,

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and it's in
Maine so it gets pretty cold in

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the winter, but the
animals do well here,

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and so do the
plants, and so do I.

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It's heaven.

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We have 16 chickens here, and
they're all very different.

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-[Janet] Ready to go, girls?

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-[Janet VO] Late
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I always let them out -- free
range -- which is lots of fun,

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and they just love that.

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[chickens clucking]

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They're just all over the
place, pecking at little bugs,

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and pecking at flowers,
and pecking dust bats,

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and just being very busy.

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[chicken squawking]

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They all have individual
personalities: some of them are

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very quiet and
rather submissive,

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and there are others
that are gregarious,

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and they want to talk, and
they want to ask questions,

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and they sort of strut around.

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They do things that are
almost human sometimes.

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-Hey, girl.

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Are we supposed to be in here?

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Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.

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Come on!
Shoo, shoo!

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Shoo, shoo!

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There you go.

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Oh, good girl!

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-[Janet VO] They're my friends.

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-You found a cricket?
All right, go ahead.

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-[Janet VO] The chickens
really are my friends.

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-Go on!
Back.

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There you go.

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-One afternoon, I let all the
chickens out to graze outside,

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and cruise around,
and it was very, very cold.

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And, it had been forecast
that we were going to have a

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Nor'easter.

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♪ominous orchestral music♪

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The
weather became very raw,

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and it started to snow,
so I said to Dog Martha,

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I said, "we better
call the girls in."

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-Chickee!

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Chick chick chick
chick chick chick, chickee!

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Chickee!

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♪♪♪

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-So, we did call them, and
everybody came but this one --

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number seven.

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-Chickee!
Chickee!

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-[Janet VO] And I said,
"Martha, you're going to have

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to find this
other chicken, 'cause

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I don't have any
idea where she is."

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So, she did.

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She looked
everywhere and, finally,

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she said, "Oh, here we
are, here's the chicken."

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[dog barking]

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Sure, enough, there she was.

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But the poor, dear thing
was lying on her back,

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just frozen -- like the kind
you'd find in a grocery store.

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So, we dragged her out
with one of the rakes,

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and we brought her to the house,
so that we could put her in a

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box and bury her when the
snow lets up a little bit.

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Poor thing.

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I was going to put
her in a shoebox,

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but her feet were
stuck way up in the air,

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frozen, so...what to do?

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And so, we put her in
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and I did some housework, and
came back in about an hour.

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And the legs were
still pretty stiff.

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But I looked at
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and I found that she had a
little throb on her neck,

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a little pulse.

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-My God!

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She's alive!

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-[Janet VO] So, I got the hot
water bottle and put her on her

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back on that.

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She was breathing
about four times a minute,

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so I thought, "Well, by golly!

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You'd better-- you'd
better give her CPR."

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That I didn't
know too much about,

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but I'd seen it on television,
on these doctor shows.

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-One, two, three, four.

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-[Janet VO] So, I
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swift, "one, two, three, four!"

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and I pried her
little beak open,

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and I did give
her mouth to beak.

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I did this for quite
a number of times.

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In three hours, she was
back in business again,

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and stood up and
was looking for dinner.

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[chucken clucking]

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I gave her a lot of hugs, and I
told her she's going to be okay,

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and...we were going
to take care of her.

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-We brought you back.

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♪inspirational music♪

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I had a baby crib, which I
put up in the living room.

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[chicken clucking]

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And she stayed in this baby crib
for a whole week until she got

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her strength back, and she
seemed to be having a good time.

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She enjoyed watching
television very much.

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[medical machine beeping]

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And, of course, that's where we
got all the idea of doing the

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CPR for her.

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This is how I
learned how to do it.

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♪yodeling and banjo music♪

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♪ominous synth music♪

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[machine whirring]

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♪♪♪

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[chicks chirping]

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♪ethereal choral music♪

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[rooster crowing]

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♪gentle banjo music♪

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-[Joseph] There we go, come on!

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-[Joseph VO] I raise chickens
because I like to know where my

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family's food is coming from.

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I want to be closer to
the whole chain of life.

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♪♪♪

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Just as my garden, to put the
seed in the ground and finally

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eat the vegetable,
I raise thechicken and we

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finally eat the chicken.

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And so, I'm part of the
whole cycle of the food chain,

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and it gives me a
sense of well-being.

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-[Joseph] Hello, girls.
How you doing?

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Good morning to you.

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-[Joseph VO] I could have chosen
many other kinds of animals to

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devote my energies to, but
chickens have a kind of energy

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that excites me, and it
brings life to the farm,

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and I enjoy that.

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-Chick chick chick chick chick.

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-[Joseph VO] Most of the
day I let them run free,

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but they're as free as
I am out on the farm.

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[chickens clucking]

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Many of the chickens
here live a great life.

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I can tell, not only from
the flavor of the meat,

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and the quality of their
eggs, but in just their sense

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of well-being.

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These are very happy chickens.

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My dominant chicken, of
course, is Moon Rooster,

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who rules the
roost -- literally.

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[rooster crowing]

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Moon Rooster seems to
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protecting his flock.

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If there's a strange
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and look to the sound.

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He's a signal-bearer for danger.

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He keeps track of
every hen all day long.

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He seems to be most vicarious,
perhaps like some of us,

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in the morning, and he will
start courting some of the hens:

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scraping and
strutting around them,

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and then leap on them, you know?

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And, um, mate with them.

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So, Moon Rooster is the one
who's both father figure and

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also [chuckling] lover, I guess.

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[chickens clucking]

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-The rooster's main call is
he makes a crow sound which is

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[imitates rooster call]

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Most of the time, he flaps
his chest before he crows.

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[imitates rooster]

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Main ritual he has
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and how he gets a hen to come
over is he lures her by making a

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sound when he finds a
piece of grain or something.

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[clucking like rooster]

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[rooster clucking]

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-[imitating rooster]

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-[Joel VO] Then the hen
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and she's picking up
the grain or whatever,

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and then he does a dance around
her by putting one wing down,

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and one leg up.

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And
it's...[imitating rooster call]

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And at that point
they'll either mate,

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or the hen will run from him.

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[chickens squawking]

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And then if he mates with her,
afterward it's [slapping chest]

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[imitating crowing]

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[rooster crowing]

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[slapping chest]

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[imitating crowing]

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[rooster crowing]

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-It sounded like a train wreck,
it sounded like small children

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being choked.

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-They kind of sound like
they're tearing their guts out.

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-Long fingernails
pulling on a blackboard.

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-You find yourself walking
around with your fists clenched

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and your body clenched.

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-It was with us all the time;
we could not get away from it.

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It's-- it's when
you're washing the dishes,

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it's when you're sleeping, it's
when you're talking to friends,

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it's when you're taking a walk.

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-And then you go, "Oh, it's
the noise in the background.

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It's the roosters."

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[roosters crowing]

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-It started four years ago,
and the Webbs had moved in in

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approximately November, and in
February they started erecting

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these structures -- I
knew what they were.

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They were getting ready
to raise fighting cocks.

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And so, three months later,
25 roosters arrived and-- and

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it started.

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[roosters crowing]

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-[John VO] The noise was just a
constant din starting at about

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four thirty, five
o'clock in the morning,

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and it would go on 'til about
seven or eight at night and

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start back up in the morning.

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-There was never a time where it
was completely silent -- I could

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remember during a rainstorm at
three o'clock in the morning,

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you still would hear a
lone rooster crowing.

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They just never stopped.

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[chorus of roosters crowing]

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-[John VO] It's something that
one can't maybe clearly identify

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what the sound is, but is
just an extremely annoying

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sound overall.

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You know, something
that basically almost

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hits you emotionally.

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[roosters crowing]

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-It was like
Chinese water torture;

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it was like having these little
drips just falling on your

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forehead at regular intervals.

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-A rooster is not a
beautiful songbird, okay?

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When it yells, it's
yelling for a mate.

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It's claiming territory.

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It wants to be heard.

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What the man who was raising
the roosters heard was money.

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He heard gambling.

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What we heard was a sound of...

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loss of our property value,

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a loss of our peace and quiet.

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Just kind of a
destruction of our home.

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[wind chimes]

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The problem with the rooster
noise was that it was foreground

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noise, so we set up wind chimes,
we set up noise machines,

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we rigged fountains, we did
all kinds of things to shift the

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rooster's noise
to the background.

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♪gentle guitar strumming♪

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-In the morning, I would
immediately get annoyed.

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I'd just think, "Roosters!

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You know, "Why do I even
have to think about roosters?

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Already-- I just got up,
and already I'm thinking

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about roosters.

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I don't want to
think about roosters."

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-It made me angry.

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It made me angry that
someone could come into our nice

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neighborhood and think that we
were so stupid that they were

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going to get away with
something that was just--

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I was just-- it blew my mind.

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[roosters crowing loudly]

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It was obnoxious at
20 roosters, or at 28.

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[roosters crowing loudly]

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When it got to be 100
roosters, it was insane.

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[roosters crowing loudly]

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-[David VO] It's not something
I could passively listen to.

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Things needed to be done.

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"How am I going to get
rid of these things?

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What's the plan, what
are we going to do?"

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-People talked about
parachuting in poison and...

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letting minks loose
over there, and ferrets.

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Other people said, "I'd just
crawl over there with a gun and

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just start taking
them out one by one."

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I never really found out a whole
lot about Bobby Wayne Webb,

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he's kind of a mysterious guy.

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-[Bobby VO] I enjoy
raising roosters very much.

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To me, raising that rooster from
a little baby chick to its full

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grown, seeing what
it turns out to be,

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it's like raising a kid to me.

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I just love-- love full one.

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♪tender guitar music♪

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It's a lot of care,
and a lot of hard work,

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if you want to have a
real pretty rooster.

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♪♪♪

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The only time they crow is early
in the morning at daybreak,

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that's what we
call their waking up...

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[rooster crowing]

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and then in the evening, when
they're going to sleep and I'm

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feeding them, they crow.

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That's when they mostly
do all their crowing.

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I think it's a
lovely sound myself.

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[rooster crowing]

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-Well, that crow is a challenge
to all the other roosters that

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are in hearing distance.

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"I'm here.

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I intend to stay here, and there
ain't nobody can do anything

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about it."

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They've got two
purposes in life,

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the way I see it: their main
purpose in life is to reproduce.

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[roosters crowing]

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The other purpose they have in
life is to kill another rooster.

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They just hate another rooster.

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That's the way they came
out the jungle in Asia.

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They don't get into scrimmages
just for the fun of it,

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every scrimmage they get into
is a life-or-death situation.

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One of them's going
to walk away alive,

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and the other's
going to walk away dead.

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[birds chirping]

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-[David VO] Well, I'm quite a
student of Eastern philosophies,

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and one of the books I read was
on 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu,

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a Japanese war lord.

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And he wrote this doctrine
on how to defeat an enemy.

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[wind chimes]

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Sun Tzu emphasized the need
to get allies -- one on one,

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you could not win,
you needed six-to-one,

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ten-to-one in order to win.

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♪dramatic string music♪

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So, I got Alex, I
got the neighbors,

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I got the county
prosecutor, I got the newspaper.

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-[Bobby VO] You know, I just
heard rumors saying I was in the

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Mafia and stuff -- saying I
was cock fighting down here,

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you know?

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They started them rumors by
going around and telling all the

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neighbors, trying to get
them to sign a complaint.

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I moved here, you know, I talked
to the zoning people and made

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sure everything was all right,
and they said there'd be no

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problems, so I went to
start raising the chickens.

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[rooster crowing]

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Next thing I know,
I was being sued.

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[gavel strikes]

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-First, we tried to sue him
through zoning -- we lost in

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that endeavor -- then we
switched to suing him as

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a nuisance.

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-[David VO] I hired Brian Doy
to record the number of crows as

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they occurred
throughout the day.

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This was evidence that we
used in the court case.

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[roosters crowing]

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We estimated that there was
approximately 20,000 crows in

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a day.

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-I can't believe that.

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I think it was just--
they didn't want me here.

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[gavel strikes]

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♪melancholy harmonica music♪

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-[John VO] No reasonable person
should have to listen to this

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kind of noise, and
the judge agreed.

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It took a long time
winding through the court,

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but it ultimately did work.

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I hate to be ethno-centric,
but you know you're a redneck if

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you're raising
roosters for cockfighting.

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-It's taking a deep
breath and going,

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"Wow, we really won.

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Wow, this is really great.

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This is how it was, you
know, three years ago."

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We're happy.

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This is the country.

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♪tense pensive guitar♪

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-[Bobby VO] I think they are
about a bunch of whiny yuppies.

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You live in an
agricultural area,

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that's what
agricultural areas are for.

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I mean, if you don't like the
sound of a rooster crowing,

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why would you want to
move to the country?

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♪♪♪

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[hens clucking]

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-[Joseph VO] The hens first
order of business in their day

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is laying eggs.

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[hen clucking]

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Then, they'll do other things
for comfort: they'll find shady

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spots in hot times of the day.

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[hens clucking]

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They love their dust baths,
you'll see them shooting dust

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into the air and
fluffing their feathers,

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and it gets the dust
right next to their skin,

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and it helps them kill lice and
other vermin next to their skin.

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Every day, we
have to gather eggs,

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or they spoil.

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-[child] I wonder
how many there are.

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-But with the
free-ranging chickens,

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it's a little bit more
adventurous than it is when you

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have them in a hen house, when
you know where the eggs are.

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The chickens are remarkable in
what they produce every day.

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And they're
beautiful, they're delicious,

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they look very different
from what you buy at the

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grocery stores.

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-I found another one!

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[bees buzzing]

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[children laughing]

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♪yodeling and
banjo strumming♪

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[chickens clucking]

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00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,600
-Hi, everybody.

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This is Cotton the Rooster.

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♪smooth jazzy music♪

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Cotton the Rooster
has been with me,

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oh, about seven years, and
he's really my soulmate.

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I fell in love with him,
and he fell in love with me.

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00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,720
Right, Cotton?

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He's such a little sweetheart.

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This is a very
special little chickee.

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As you can see, this is my baby.

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♪♪♪

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Knowing a chicken is
something very special.

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They're just not here
on this Earth to eat,

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they're here because
they're beautiful creatures

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of the universe.

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♪♪♪

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[chicken clucking]

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-[Karin] There we are, darling.

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-[Karin VO] Here's a poem I
wrote: "For My Cotton Rooster."

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Each day, a beautiful
white rooster called Cotton

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arises crowing.

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He has such love and happiness.

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He has such a joy exuding
from his whole beautiful being.

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[blow dryer]

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I never even knew

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a human that was filled

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with so much love and joy,

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so great to
greet me each morning.

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-[Karin] All done!

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You look beautiful.

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00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,560
There you go!
You're all finished.

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Off we go!

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♪cheerful music♪

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Oh, Cotton, look!

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00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,280
Isn't it a beautiful day?

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00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,960
We're going on a wonderful ride.

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Aren't you happy?

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He really thinks he's a human.

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He doesn't notice
the difference,

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because he does all
the things we do.

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00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,000
You know, he wants
to get up on the bed,

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and go to sleep there,
and wants to eat with us.

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00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,200
In fact, he'll jump up on the
table when we're eating and...

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he eats just
about everything I eat.

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Corn on the cob,
that's his favorite, and...

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oh, he loves a good McDonald's!

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00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,720
Though, I don't
have that too much,

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because I'm not a junk-eater.
[chuckles]

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♪upbeat music♪

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-[Joseph VO] I've watched a
little bit of what the hens eat.

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Sometimes, of course, they'll go
on the driveway and just fill up

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00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,560
on rocks because that's
how they eat -- they don't

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have any teeth.

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00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,120
Nutritionally, they know
exactly what they need.

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They'll take, for
example, one dandelion fluff,

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and then they'll move to another
weed and take a little piece of

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a leaf, and also little pieces
of dirt or something I can't see

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because their
eyesight is just fabulous.

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Like living microscopes.

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They'll also chase
anything that moves,

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so they're very good at taking
moths and flies and mosquitos

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00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,920
and everything like that --
they're always after things that

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are moving.

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♪orchestral music♪

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-[Karin VO] When
I leave the house,

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I always leave the
television on for him,

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so he can watch television.

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00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,360
Or, I leave on classical music.

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00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,120
Of course he loves Pavarotti.

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00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,320
♪operatic singing♪

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They're so intelligent, I mean
they're just like dogs and cats.

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Well, I've heard of them
being house-broken, too.

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But he has a little panty on,
just in case he would have a

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little accident.

461
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,000
The panties -- how do they work?

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00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,960
I tie them here, see it comes?

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00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,480
Here it is!

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Just tie it under the
wing, get it very comfortable,

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and then just
come right through,

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and I put a little
diaper pad inside.

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-[Joseph VO] We can't always
judge animals from our own kind

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of intelligence.

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Chickens have their
own chicken intelligence.

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Chicken instincts.

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They have a sense of
affection for each other,

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and I know that they communicate
like you and I communicate.

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They have a wide variety
of sounds: scolding sounds,

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00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,280
come hither sounds,
sounds of surprise and shock.

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-If we could just see
the beauty of a chicken,

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00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,880
a chicken's personality, that
they're not just in a barnyard,

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00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,760
they're here for a reason.

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00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,720
It is a beautiful, beautiful
gift to us on this Earth.

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♪mellow jazzy music♪

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-What happened when the
press got a hold of it was

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rather-- rather scary to me
because I had never had any

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00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,800
experience with
anything like this before.

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00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,800
Her fame went very fast, I got
calls from people from all over

484
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,800
the country: talk shows, DJs...

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00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,640
we went by satellite to
Guam, we went by satellite

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00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,120
to Australia and Nepal.

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00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,480
It also wound up in Moscow.

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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,160
And, I think, there was a lot
of interest in the story at the

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00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,960
time because there were a lot of
things that were going on that

490
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,920
were not particularly
pleasant in the media.

491
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,160
The trial of OJ
Simpson was happening...

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00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,840
-[woman on TV] ...found Orenthal
James Simpson not guilty of the

493
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,720
crime of murder...

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-[Janet VO] And I think people
were just kind of fed up and

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00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,080
needed a story that was
homey, and a Cinderella story,

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00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,200
if you will, that did work out.

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[chickens clucking]

498
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,040
♪serene flute music♪

499
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,920
After she got some good strong
feathers and was back on her

500
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,280
feet, I thought that she
deserved a little better than

501
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,520
just "Number Seven,"
so we decided to call her

502
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,000
"Valerie" for her valley.

503
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,360
"Queen Val,"
maybe, I don't know.

504
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,360
But "Valerie" it was.

505
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,720
And she has responded
to that name ever since.

506
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,880
When she went back into
the coop, all those girls were

507
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,240
astounded to see her.

508
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,680
They all sort of crowded
around, and it was like a

509
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,640
town meeting, you know?

510
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,320
Everybody was
talk, talk, talking.

511
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,120
"Where have you
been for a week?"

512
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,480
"Let's hear where you've
been, what you've been doing."

513
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,200
"You were gone quite a
while, where were you?"

514
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,560
"Tell us about it!
Tell us about it!"

515
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,480
She said, "Well, I have
had a real experience,

516
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,360
let me tell you."

517
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,920
And so Valerie, I guess, told
them that she'd been in the

518
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,360
house, and things had been
very nice and she was watching

519
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,600
television, and
she had good meals,

520
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,600
and lots of love.

521
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,160
It was just delightful.

522
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,040
There was a friend
that I had here locally,

523
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,840
and she knew someone that
was an animal communicator,

524
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,640
and so she called him and she
asked him if he would be willing

525
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,320
to ask Valerie a
couple of questions.

526
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,680
♪ethereal music♪

527
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,720
The first question is,
"When you were frozen,

528
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,640
had you been going down a
tunnel with a light at the end?

529
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,880
And, if so, why
would you come back?"

530
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,640
And so, Valerie said
to him, "Yes, indeed.

531
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,240
[heartbeat thumping]

532
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,680
I did go down the tunnel.

533
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,960
♪♪♪

534
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,960
I got pretty close to the
end, where the light was,

535
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,600
and then I was told,
'You must go back.'

536
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,640
♪♪♪

537
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,120
And I realized that I
had been put on this farm,

538
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,360
not just to lay eggs, but to
prove to people that with love

539
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,600
and with caring,
miracles do happen."

540
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,000
♪inspirational music♪

541
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,440
[seagulls cawing]

542
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,840
♪gentle guitar music♪

543
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,000
-[Elwynjohn VO] Mr. Olsen was a
really enjoyable man to talk to.

544
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,480
I always made a special point
to come by and see him because I

545
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,960
was little, and I asked him how
his chicken, was and he said,

546
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,000
"All good things
gotta come to an end."

547
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,320
I really did know for sure
what happened to the chicken.

548
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,760
It was a strange episode.

549
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,160
He was headless.

550
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,320
Headless rooster.

551
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,400
That was how the story goes.

552
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,680
-[Clyde VO]
Headless chicken -- bull.

553
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,560
But the proof is in the pudding.

554
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,440
I went out and seen
it two or three times.

555
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,000
-[Harold VO] He
was a great rooster.

556
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,480
Once upon a time and a
half, but it's kind of hard

557
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,760
for anybody to believe.

558
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,680
But it's true.

559
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,240
Yeah.
It is true.

560
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,480
[service bell ringing]

561
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,400
♪upbeat guitar music♪

562
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,800
-[Troy VO] Back in the 40s, when
my grandparents were running the

563
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,760
farm, they
raised fryer roosters,

564
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:05,280
fryer hens, and they would
slaughter a few of them at a

565
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,880
time for their own use and
then they would sell them.

566
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,160
My grandfather would
chop the heads off,

567
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,120
and my grandmother
would start picking and

568
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,240
cleaning the feathers.

569
00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,160
Well, he would just keep
chopping and throwing them down

570
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,000
there in the pile, then they got
to the end, and once there was

571
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,560
a live one walking around.

572
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,240
Now he told me that,
you know, on occasion,

573
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:29,960
one would get out and flop
around and maybe live for a few

574
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,280
minutes, but they'd
always go ahead and die,

575
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,000
but they had
one that didn't die.

576
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,080
-Any normal man would reach down
and pick him up and cut his damn

577
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,360
head off -- again.

578
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,760
But not Ollie.

579
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,360
He pick him up,
stopped him from bleeding,

580
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,960
and that was his
headless chicken.

581
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,160
That was Mike.

582
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,160
-[Troy VO] And after it lived
for two or three days and was

583
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,880
getting along fine, of course,
neighbors started finding out

584
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,640
about it, coming to see him, and
people started hearing about it.

585
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,280
-You'd get a six-pack of beer
and go up there and you'd get to

586
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,120
see the rooster.

587
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,040
-That's when I
started thinking, "Boy,

588
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,560
I'd like to have that."

589
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,680
I'd seen a two-headed
calf before at a fair.

590
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,240
But not anything without a head.

591
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,320
I mean, that's impossible.

592
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,880
-[Troy VO] A gentleman by the
name of H.B. Wade had heard

593
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,160
about it, and he
was in the business of promoting

594
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,640
different things, and he got in
touch with my grandparents and

595
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,840
convinced them there might be
a little money made in it -- in

596
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,800
taking it to side shows
and things like that.

597
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,880
Mike was on
exhibit in Salt Lake,

598
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,880
out in California,
was shown in Phoenix.

599
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,720
-[Clyde VO] They showed
him several times in Chicago,

600
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,680
Florida, Atlanta, and New
York on the East Coast.

601
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,720
-[Troy VO] They had
dreams of making money

602
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,240
off of this rooster.

603
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:05,960
-[Clyde VO] Seattle,
Fresco, LA, on the west coast.

604
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,160
-[Troy VO] And
paying the farm off,

605
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,120
and getting it out of debt,
and buying new farm equipment.

606
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,800
-[Clyde VO] And then I
understand -- now don't hold me

607
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,440
to this -- that it
went overseas to England.

608
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,560
[steamboat whistling]

609
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,240
[crowd cheering]

610
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,760
-He was a real rooster,
though; he was a real pappy.

611
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,160
And spoiled rotten
after a few months.

612
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,000
Nothing but the best for
Mike, because he was worth

613
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,080
lots of money.

614
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,520
-Mike had, other than being
taken around to the side shows,

615
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,600
tried to live a normal life.

616
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,320
[chickens clucking]

617
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,760
When they still
had him on the farm,

618
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,800
they let him roost with
the rest of the chickens.

619
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,440
He would go out and try to prune
himself with his head -- with

620
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,840
his neck, really, 'cause he
didn't have no head like a

621
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,920
chicken would.

622
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,480
He would try crowing, which
was more of a gurgling sound,

623
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,040
the way my
grandfather described it.

624
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:13,440
They would feed him
by hand, crack corn,

625
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,640
and through his esophagus.

626
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:19,480
And used an old eye
dropper to give him water,

627
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,400
so he did require
some attention,

628
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,880
but pretty much he was like a
normal chicken even though he

629
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,840
didn't have a head.

630
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,720
I think Lloyd and Claire thought
that they were in the money --

631
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:35,200
that they were going to go
off and seek their fortune,

632
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,840
and retire off of this rooster.

633
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,000
Mike drew a pretty good
crowd at the sideshows,

634
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,440
be it people that were just
interested or thought it was

635
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,920
a hoax.

636
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,960
He had a lot of
publicity about him,

637
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,000
and a lot of bad publicity, too.

638
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,400
My grandparents received a lot
of hate mail after that Miracle

639
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,000
Mike was published
in Life Magazine.

640
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,360
A lot of people thought it
was cruel to keep him alive,

641
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,240
that they should have just went
ahead and finished the job and

642
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:18,480
put him in the cooking pot.

643
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,000
-[Elwynjohn VO] He
was a healthy chicken,

644
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,520
all of the time
that he was around.

645
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,040
But they still blamed Olly.

646
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,680
"You should have cut
his damn head off!"

647
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,560
[laughs]

648
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,320
But he didn't do that.

649
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,320
He kept him.

650
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,160
-[Troy VO] Lloyd always thought
that it could have made him,

651
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,200
you know, a lot of money,
and it really never did.

652
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,640
Mike had a problem sometimes,
he would start choking or

653
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,440
strangling on its own mucous and
they kept a little eye dropper

654
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,840
handy to suck that out so he
wouldn't strangle to death.

655
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,840
If I remember how
the story goes right,

656
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,520
one night they had forgot this
eye dropper at the side show.

657
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,400
They had him
back at the motel room and he

658
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,960
started gurgling and strangling,
and before they could find

659
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,920
anything to keep
him from strangling,

660
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,800
he choked to death.

661
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:21,440
♪somber harmonica music♪

662
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,440
Their dreams
were kind of crushed.

663
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,680
They'd made just enough to buy
him a new farm tractor, and to

664
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,880
finish paying off a little bit
of land that he still owed some

665
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,120
money on.

666
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,440
I really don't know what
to think of why Mike lived.

667
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,280
Was it just fate?

668
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,560
Did this one particular
rooster have just that much

669
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,800
will to live?

670
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,800
Or was it just because he
was so a dumb of an animal that

671
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,840
he didn't even know
his head was cut off?

672
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,200
I think it's one of
those mysterious of life,

673
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,200
really, why it happened.

674
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,480
♪♪♪

675
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,240
-[Joseph VO] In
order to eat a chicken,

676
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,000
you have to kill a chicken.

677
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,080
Now there's just no
easy way around that.

678
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,080
I tried to do it as
easily on them as possible;

679
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,280
I try to respect them all
the way through the process,

680
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,440
up to the table.

681
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,840
All farmers take this
as a matter of course.

682
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,440
I guess I feel a little bit odd
about speaking about killing,

683
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,720
because I know many, many people
have no experience of this all.

684
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,320
It's very difficult for them
to see it as not being cruel,

685
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,720
but I don't see
it as being cruel.

686
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,120
I see it as necessary.

687
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,760
[chickens clucking]

688
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,800
Somebody's doing it.

689
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,880
If you eat meat, somebody
is harvesting that creature

690
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,000
for you.

691
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,920
♪serene guitar music♪

692
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,360
[chicken clucking]

693
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,320
♪♪♪

694
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,600
-Well, let's have a toast
to our chicken tonight, okay?

695
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,640
Here we go: to our beautiful
chicken feeding us tonight.

696
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,280
[glasses clinking]

697
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,120
There we go.

698
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,520
♪♪♪

699
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,200
-[Joseph VO] There's a sense of
wholeness about growing your own

700
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:50,120
food, and the chickens remind
me every day that it's not just

701
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,080
me in this world.

702
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,840
It helps me stay attuned to
those things that are important

703
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,640
to me, like cycles
of life and death,

704
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,400
of happiness and sadness --
just everything that makes a

705
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,120
life rich.

706
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,080
It keeps me connected
to things outside of myself.

707
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,240
[church bells ringing]

708
00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:17,360
[chicken clucking]

709
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:24,680
-[Pastor Joseph VO]
It's strange how we pick up

710
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,960
certain expressions.

711
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,040
From the time I
was a little kid,

712
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,560
one of the worst
forms of deration

713
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,400
was to be called "chicken."

714
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:37,040
The quickest way to get a fight
started was to use this name

715
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,920
against a target of ridicule.

716
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,560
The implication was always
that a chicken was a coward,

717
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,520
or lacking in courage.

718
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,480
♪curious playful music♪

719
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,160
Many people have never really
known a chicken -- I mean, the

720
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,040
feathered bird
commonly found on the farms.

721
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:54,960
♪♪♪

722
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,640
I have been fortunate to be
around chickens much of my life.

723
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,560
And have formed a
close bond with several.

724
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,960
One of the more
memorable was Liza.

725
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,240
[hens clucking]

726
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:12,160
Liza was a
Japanese Silkie bantam.

727
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,880
She was about half the size
of the average barnyard hen,

728
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,080
but big in her love
for life, as well as her

729
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,120
unfailing determination.

730
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,560
Her feathers were
snow-white, fluffy,

731
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,440
almost fur-like.

732
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,160
A patch of feathers perched atop
her head like a comical crown.

733
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,680
Her dark eyes
sparkled with life,

734
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,960
and as I later realized, a
great depth of chicken wisdom.

735
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,400
One aspect of life,
however, seemed to elude

736
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,560
Liza: motherhood.

737
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:52,200
She laid eggs regularly --
tiny bantam eggs not much larger

738
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,360
than marbles.

739
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,960
But her diminutive size put her
at a great disadvantage with the

740
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,280
other chickens.

741
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,520
The larger hens always crowded
around her nest before the

742
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,800
required 21-day
incubation period.

743
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,520
[hens clucking]

744
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,040
As the new mothers would
introduce their brood to the

745
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,960
real world, Liza would
attempt to take over the duties

746
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,920
of mother.

747
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,080
♪curious playful music♪

748
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,320
As a result, she took a
great deal of abuse from

749
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,400
the other chickens.

750
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,600
[hens squawking]

751
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,240
♪♪♪

752
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,160
I felt a compassion for Liza.

753
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,680
Sensing how desperately she
wanted to experience motherhood,

754
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,800
I attempted to help her by
making a nest from the others.

755
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,840
Liza readily accepted
it, and began laying eggs.

756
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,960
However, I soon
discovered the eggs broken,

757
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,440
and contents eaten.

758
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,880
Liza began exhibiting
signs of great distress.

759
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,360
She erratically
checked empty nests,

760
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,680
clucked in a
strange, monotonous way.

761
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,600
Realizing that
something had to be done,

762
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,120
I constructed a
miniature chicken house,

763
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,760
complete with all
the amenities: food,

764
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,720
water, and a private nest
that would be the envy of any

765
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,480
chicken's eye.

766
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,480
Liza settled in to her new home
and immediately began depositing

767
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,480
eggs in the nest at the rate
of one a day until she had six.

768
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,520
She then went into the setting
mode: plucking feathers from her

769
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,360
breast to line the
nest, and expose her warm,

770
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,480
moist skin to the eggs.

771
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,880
Finally, the eggs
began to hatch.

772
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,280
[chicks chirping]

773
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,640
The baby chicks were
unbelievably small;

774
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,720
it was difficult to count them.

775
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:18,520
But they seemed to disappear
almost immediately into the

776
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,160
fluffy feathers beneath
Liza's wings and breast.

777
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,280
There never was a
mother more devoted,

778
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,400
more thrilled, or more
suited to the task at hand.

779
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,160
Liza was fairly glowing with
the pride and joy of motherhood.

780
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,040
I kept the little family
in their confined space for

781
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,840
a few days.

782
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,520
Reluctant to allow them out into
the real world filled with so

783
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,760
much danger.

784
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,160
Liza pleaded with every motion
of her body to take her new

785
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,320
family out into the world.

786
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,560
♪inspirational music♪

787
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,760
She paced back and forth at
the door until I gave in,

788
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,360
and opened their lives to a
world filled with green grass,

789
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,400
warm moist earth, and more juicy
bugs than most of us care to

790
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,360
know about.

791
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,640
[chicks chirping]

792
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,400
♪♪♪

793
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,720
True to my expectations,
Liza was the ideal mother.

794
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,440
She showed her little family the
very best places to search for

795
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,640
seeds and grain.

796
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,720
From sun up to sun down, she was
tireless in searching out the

797
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,080
very best for her brood.

798
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,880
I felt quite good about
the perfection of it all,

799
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,120
the absolute order
in God's universe.

800
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,480
The demonstration of
life as it should be.

801
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,080
It was during one of these
moments of reflection that I was

802
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,200
shocked into a broader
understanding of our true

803
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,080
relationship with
God's creatures.

804
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:10,600
♪suspenseful music♪

805
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,840
As I stood one morning, looking
out over the field beyond our

806
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,040
kitchen window, and absently
watching the scattered group of

807
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,040
chickens going
about their routine,

808
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,440
I saw the entire
community of chickens freeze.

809
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,160
[chickens clucking]

810
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,240
The total population of chickens
scattered across the field,

811
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:33,560
reactive of one mind, as a blur
of feathered body dived beneath

812
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,760
any available cover.

813
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,160
I knew this activity indicated
the close presence of a hawk.

814
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,280
♪dramatic music♪

815
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,160
Then something caught my eye...

816
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,720
♪suspenseful music♪

817
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,880
I saw the look of
panic in Liza's dark eyes

818
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,720
as she started
to run for the overhang of

819
00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:58,520
the chicken house.

820
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,840
Suddenly, the same
thought struck us both.

821
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,000
-[whispering] The babies.

822
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,760
[chicks chirping]

823
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,960
-[Pastor Joseph VO] I
vicariously lived the agonizing

824
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,560
moment with Liza as she broke
stride and turned back to the

825
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,520
six tiny chicks still
pecking in the grass,

826
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,040
oblivious in their infancy to
the event happening around them.

827
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:26,480
With one command from Liza, the
babies instantly rushed beneath

828
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,320
her outstretched wings.

829
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,440
I've tried to interpret the
expression I saw come over her.

830
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,560
Was it resignation?

831
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,920
Perhaps surrender?

832
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,520
Or was it releasing, and putting
the outcome into the hands of a

833
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,720
higher power?

834
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:47,560
[hawk screeching]

835
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,440
♪suspenseful music♪

836
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,600
As I slowly and reluctantly
walked toward the spot,

837
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,720
I was impacted by the
immensity of what I perceived

838
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,120
to have happened...

839
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,040
♪♪♪

840
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,560
I had just witnessed
a chicken perform a deed that

841
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,280
would make headlines if the
same act had been performed

842
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,160
by a human.

843
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,080
Liza had overcome the
so-called survival instinct,

844
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,240
and with
precision of forethought,

845
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:34,280
offered her life for another.

846
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,480
The phrase entered my
mind: "No greater love."

847
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,520
♪inspirational music♪

848
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,520
There was a creature that many
educated and philosophic people

849
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,400
had declared not
only to have no soul,

850
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,080
but to be without the capability
of thinking or reasoning.

851
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,320
♪♪♪

852
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,120
[chicks chirping]

853
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,680
Yet Liza had
performed the supreme,

854
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,040
heroic, and selfless act.

855
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,040
[chick chirping]

856
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,240
I stood looking down at the
pile of feather in the grass

857
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:22,440
and weeds.

858
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,080
As I touched the
mound of feathers,

859
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,160
a startling and
unexpected thing happened.

860
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,920
Apparently, misjudging the
depth and thickness of her coat,

861
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,040
the hawk had missed.

862
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,440
♪♪♪

863
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,760
As I watched Liza and her chicks
calmly continue with their

864
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,920
routine of the day, I realized
that I could never think of a

865
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,640
chicken in the same way again.

866
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,760
Not everyone will have such
a dramatic decision as Liza,

867
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,520
but at some point in our lives,
we will all have an encounter

868
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:02,160
with our hawk, and we will each
have a choice about how we face

869
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,000
that hawk.

870
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,160
♪♪♪

871
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:14,080
I believe that I
must set an example,

872
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,840
and I hope to confront any
situation with the grace,

873
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,240
dignity, and confidence in
God that I witnessed in Liza.

874
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,800
I know now that I would be
honored to be called "chicken."

875
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,200
♪"Chicken" by
Mississippi John Hurt♪

876
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,200
♪♪♪