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Of course I want to promote chicken randomness!
Doesn't everyone? What else could be the answer to the question "Do you want to help promote chicken randomness?"

Welcome to Random Chicken, where you can see photos of a random chicken, get the latest chicken jokes and chicken recipes, and, if you're not careful, end up with a million useless popupware/spamware programs installed on your computer.

They have a link to chicken books, which takes you to an amazon.com search results for "chicken" page. The first book on the list is one I actually own, and a good one, called Amazing Chickens. The book contains lots of lovely pictures of chickens of every breed from Silky to Sebright, and some breeds I'd never even seen before.

You can submit photos of your own to RandomChicken.com, that will presumably become part of their random chicken archive. I submitted some photos of Judah, a rooster I raised from a chick & kept in one of my apartments when I lived in Houston. I'm excited to see if my pictures actually go up. The instructions gave an e-mail address & the file requirements, and then said: "Thank you for your submission. You will only make Random Chicken better!" Cool! Sounds like the text of a fortune cookie. I can't wait!

Random Chicken also has some pretty nifty chicken-themed products, too, at their cafepress.com store, and of course the link is on the site.

Their chicken recipes looked delish - fire roasted chicken skewers with tangerine glaze, chicken breasts with walnut aillade, and so forth. In keeping with the site's theme, the recipe that comes up is random. If you hit refresh on any page, its content changes. So on this page, another recipe comes up. On the splash page, you can hit refresh to reload the page with a different random chicken picture. It's a neat way to keep the site fresh looking & make it fun to check in on every so often without having to scroll through a bunch of stuff you've already seen.

Their chicken jokes were duds, but I've only ever heard one funny chicken joke, and it doesn't qualify for their site due to their anti-profanity stance. But, since we don't have any such Victorian values here at Donutposse, I'll share it with you now. Here goes:

Q: What's that yellow stuff in the middle of chickenshit?
A: That's chickenshit, too.

(As with most humor, it's all in the delivery with this joke.) I hit refresh a few times, to generate fresh jokes, but the feature only pulls from the site's reserves, it doesn't breathe new life into these old chestnuts. There was one ok one that had the pope and Colonel Sanders in it, though. The pope makes any joke funny, pretty much.

The best part of this site is the free e-mail hosting they provide. Yep - you can now e-mail me at donutposse@randomchicken.com. Great, now I have one more place to collect spam & forget to respond to people. Super - just what I needed. It's a standard webmail-looking interface, but definitely a fun e-mail address to give out.

Also, be sure to check out the video clips. The randomness feature works here too, so if you refresh, you'll be able to see the different clips they have available. The index at the bottom of the screen wasn't working the last time I viewed the site, though. Watch two guys in chicken suits singing "where a chicken can be a chicken" in an ad for some poultry purveyor. Watch the development of a chicken embryo through its 21 day journey from single cell to cute lil chick. The videos are in quicktime format. (Videos is pluralized without an apostrophe here at Donutposse, but not on RandomChicken.com - sorry to be such a grammar nerd. Most of the site is done well, however - no misspelled words that I saw.)

Speaking of chicken embryos, Young Bonnie (or Clyde, depending on which sex it turns out to be) may soon be an addition to the Donutposse household. I haven't had a chicken of my very own in far too long. So the other day, when visiting the lady with the chicken tattoo (who will soon be immortalized in an entry dedicated to telling the story of how her tattoo came to be) I couldn't resist asking for a fertilized egg that one of her hens had laid. One half Silky, one half another breed I can't remember (the hens sorta looked like Silver Sebrights but weren't,) my young chick will come crashing into this world in about 16 days by my calculations. That is if I haven't managed to cook the egg in my incubation attempts. I've mostly kept it near me at all times, at human body temperature, but I've also had to put the egg under an upside-down lamp and on a heater while I slept. Cross your fingers that my little chick makes it through his or her gestation period safely.

My neighbors are gonna love this one. I'll probably only get to keep it if it turns out to be a hen. So if it turns out to be a rooster, you may be reading an adoption notice here in a few months. But I'll let you all know how it turns out regardless.

Back to Random Chicken. The only drawback of the site is that there are some annoying pop-ups that keep attempting to get you to download their applications. So make sure your pop-up blocker is armed when you visit, or else be careful not to accidentally allow some random program from being saved to your computer. That's the kind of randomness we can all do without.