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According to an eye witness, they just crossed the road.

There’s an even blurrier iPhone photo of both of them after the jump.

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26 replies on “Breaking: There Are Two Chickens on the Loose at 13th and Howell”

  1. They came from a house on Belmont & Howell. I used to live right next to them. The chickens would get out sometimes, but they never got more than a block or so in the past…
    Can’t say I’m surprised though. That house was always really sketchy.

  2. See? SEE?! This is what happens when we try to get all “rural-urban” in some sort of rosy-glassed idealistic effort to become “green”: Chickens running around in the streets, dodging cars, causing accidents, enraging dogs. I’ve seen ’em at 30th & Jackson area too. Just running around, avoiding pedestrians, flying into the lower branches of trees. It’s a mess. A TRAVESTY I tell you. It’ll all end in tears.

  3. There is only one realistic answer to the question as to why a chicken crossed a road…. this happens where there are NO possums, so you are not totally correct. A chicken crosses a road to get to the other side, same as you…;-D

  4. These chickens came from the house at 13th and Howell, the one with the farm in the front yard. I think they just installed the coop and it looks like their fence is not sufficiently chicken-proof. My dog nearly ate them yesterday morning, because I wasn’t looking out for chickens on the sidewalk.

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