Chickens Can Be Therapy Animals

They're fun to watch.

By Temma Ehrenfeld

Chicken. Did the word make you think of slippery pale pink slab? A roast in your oven? Bar-b-que?

Recently, on a trip to Vermont I happened to rent a room overnight in the home of a nurse who had a group of fluffy yellow chicks in a dark room under a heat lamp and adult chickens roaming her yard and on up to her porch where she’d put out some food. She also had left two egg boxes full of eggs, brown, white and pale green, from her own chickens. Green eggs, by the way, look normal inside, despite Dr. Seuss.

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