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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Mar 09 2010 : 12:06:56 PM
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Well, for those of you who don't know, it's the Brown Thrasher. Has anyone ever seen one? I have a few times. They migrate to Fla. Anyway, there seems to be a guy in Augusta who has a restaraunt that is famous for his fried chicken that wants to change the state bird to, of all things, the CHICKEN!
I found this out today. I dropped in at my local feed store to see if he was ordering chicks and if he'd order me some Welsummer chicks. I know I said I wasn't going to get any, but just a few won't be so bad. Anyway, there's a lady inside with a video camera from channel 9 news from Chattanooga. Tommy said she was waiting just for me to interview me about the chicken thing. (Not really!) I DID NOT want to be on tv. But no one else wanted to do it. So she finally talked me in to doing it.
All you Spunky Ole Broads would have been proud of me. At least I had clean pants on! But I had my blue rubber shoes on and my hair in a pony tail. I did have some make up on, thank goodness. But she asked me what I thought about having to eat the state bird. I said shoot yeah, that's why I raise them. And I think more people need to know where their chicken nuggets come from. My grandkids do. They even help do the job. Anyway, I can't remember what all I said. I hope they don't have to put me on the news. But I did it. I think that would be cool. Ga. is one of the leading states for chicken production. So it should be a chicken, right? I sure wish I had had the SOB t-shirt on! That would have been really cool now.
So what do ya'll think? A chicken for a state bird? I want to hear from some Ga. farmgirls, too.
Kris
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
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Karrieann
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Northeast
Georgia
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nitere
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amy
Hickory
NC
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2010 : 3:29:00 PM
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i have been living in North Carolina for two weeks. However, I was born and raised in Georgia and lived there until this move to North Carolina. I will always be a Georgia girl. So, I think I can speak here :) I love chickens and own a few, but as far as them being the state bird, I just can't see it. I'm not crazy about the brown thrasher and I am actually quite surprised that it isn't the robin since you can see them everywhere!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2010 : 3:41:41 PM
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It was just on. OMG! I wish I had not seen me. I hate being filmed. I won't even let anyone take my picture. Ugh. I am glad that's over.
Anyway, the guys slogan is "Flip Those Birds". How funny. So ya'll don't think we should make the chicken the state bird? It's the Cornish meat bird.
Kris
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melody
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The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
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graciegreeneyes
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Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
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Posted - Mar 09 2010 : 5:48:30 PM
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You are too funny Kris!! I don't know about chicken as state bird, how many chickens do y'all have there?
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2010 : 8:28:00 PM
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Melody, I hope they burn the tape! My Dd called and said she just saw it again on our local Fox news. Good grief. I should not have done that. I hope no one I know saw it. I am so self conscience it's awful. I try not to be but it's bad.
Amy Grace, Ga. is a huge producer of meat chickens. I don't know for sure, but it's probably at least the 2nd largest, if not 1st. In just a few miles of my house there are 3 places that have 5 or more houses. So it's a big thing here. My neighbors right across the road have 5. They are over a hill so I don't ever see them. I only smell them when they have been emptied and they start claeaing out all the liter and start spreading it on all the fields in the valley. It's nasty for a few days.
Kris
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Michele
Brighton
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Georgia State Bird??
