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The ladies in the retirement home across the street knitted them:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/frozen-chicken-not-handknit-sweaters/
CRISTINA QUINN: What happens when the chicken across the road is cold? You ask your neighbors to knit him a sweater, which is exactly what Erica Max, program director of the Wakefield Estate, did, when she noticed that Prince Peep, a Malaysian Serama rooster, started shivering when the temperature dropped.
ERICA MAX, Program Director, Wakefield Estate: I discovered that Serama roosters, you know, normally would live very close to the equator, and they are not well suited to this climate in New England.
CRISTINA QUINN: So Max called up Nancy Kearns, who lives at Fuller Village, a retirement community across the street, and asked her if she and her knitting group could help Prince Peep.
NANCY KEARNS, Friend: I said, lets give it a try. So I went online. Theres a very wonderful site called Pinterest. And I just typed in the words chicken sweater, and I found a pattern from England.
ERICA MAX, Program Director, Wakefield Estate: I discovered that Serama roosters, you know, normally would live very close to the equator, and they are not well suited to this climate in New England.
CRISTINA QUINN: So Max called up Nancy Kearns, who lives at Fuller Village, a retirement community across the street, and asked her if she and her knitting group could help Prince Peep.
NANCY KEARNS, Friend: I said, lets give it a try. So I went online. Theres a very wonderful site called Pinterest. And I just typed in the words chicken sweater, and I found a pattern from England.
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sweaters for chickens (Original Post)
ginnyinWI
Mar 2017
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Polly Hennessey
(6,788 posts)1. Sweaters for Chickens
Love the ladies, love the chickens, love the sweaters.🐓💕
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)2. I have a local friend that makes them and chicken 'saddles'.
She made them for her own birds, posted a picture in our local hobby/small farm group and now sells a few now and then.
dhill926
(16,314 posts)3. that would be a great band name....
shenmue
(38,506 posts)4. Bgawk
elleng
(130,740 posts)5. Sent this to my daughter, who raises chickens!
tclambert
(11,084 posts)6. Photo of a chicken sweater:
Gotta let their wings out. And I think red would be a bad idea.
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)7. Ya ain't got nuttin' , except for the "Chicken Lady"
My days of commuting to URI, always a welcome sight!
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1151
Dressing up a mailbox never was so cool!
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)8. Those are really cute!
I could see putting on on our cockatiel. He's got a fuzzy hut but he's often too much of a dummy to use it when it gets a little chilly. LOL
mdbl
(4,973 posts)9. happy chickens and roosters
make happy eggs! LOL