Article: Chickens more than just dumb clucks.

Sep 20, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX)

Although chickens tend to be associated with junk cars and shantytowns in the country, the birds recently have acquired a more upscale status, perhaps after Martha Stewart started showing up on late night television crowing about her prize-winning Anaucana hens living in the Palais de Poulet and laying eggs in shades of her signature colors of blue and green.

Others have known about the peculiar charms of the clucking pullets for decades.

When a chain of shoe stores offered a baby chick with each pair of shoes purchased, a young Kim Sturla excitedly brought a bunch of the birds home. But ...

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