My Texas Green Legged Grey, for the “Macro to the rescue” photo last week.
I’ve had this taxidermy rooster for 30 years. Ha! I was a serious rooster/chicken collector for a long time. Ceramics, paintings, textiles, you name it, if it was a chicken or rooster I bought it. This one was a gift from some people at my office. In July that year they had posed the question “what do you want for Christmas?” As a joke I said “a stuffed chicken”. That Christmas they gave him to me. Lol.
Oh my! How fun your office workers had a sense of humor! When I look at this fellow it reminds me of a story from my friend Jane who at one time was raising chickens and roosters for eggs and food. She had several roosters but one was particularly nasty. He put a pretty huge gash in her leg and when I remarked how awful it looked she said, "Not a problem. He's dinner!" I didn't see him the next time I visited!
@ludwigsdiana oh I know! It was just the most far-fetched thing I could think of when they asked me what I wanted. Ha! @happypat I dust him with a feather duster!
@joansmor when I opened the box and took him out to show everyone I set him on a secretary’s desk and left him there because everyone in the office wanted to come see him. A secretary sitting across the area came to my office late that afternoon and asked if I was taking him home. She said he was looking at her and she couldn’t get her work done. He caused quite a stir with everyone, I did take him home that day!
