Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 09, 2017

Why don’t we just run away, life is a break. Find a way, because it is hard to run away. Pull yourself together.

Pecking out the imperfections.

Impeccable

That’s an interesting peccadillo you’ve got there.

It warms the cockles of the heart to know that this rooster’s pecker has been rewired by using one of the miniature swingsets from the backyard of Barbie’s Malibu Fun House.

Mr. Leghorn has eight “points” in his comb. I don’t know much about poultry, but is this meaningful? (If anyone knows the correct anatomical terms for the parts of a comb, I’d be interested in finding out. My inquiry in no way should suggest that I don’t intend to try googling this information for myself… but should someone beat me to it, I’d be interested in knowing what they find out.)

Something else I discovered about combs.

Combs are used in cookery, often in combination with wattles or chicken kidneys.

Combs were formerly used in French cuisine as garnishes. They were also used to prepare salpicons served in vol-au-vents, profiteroles, etc. in which they were often combined with other luxury ingredients such as truffles, sweetbreads, or morels in a cream sauce.

In Italian cuisine, combs are an important ingredient in the famous sauce called Cibreo, which also includes chicken livers, wattles, and unlaid eggs. It is used as a sauce for tagliatelle and in the molded potato-ricotta ring Cimabella con cibreo.

Combs are prepared by parboiling and skinning, then cooking in court-bouillon. After preparation, they are grayish.

Rooster combs are often served in Chinese dim sum style dishes.

Hard wired comics pecking.

Forget GoComics™, I only hope that your beak injuries had not interfered with your ‘waking everybody up early in the morning’ rooster crowing routine..

The poor fellow got fed up with all the peckerwoods at GoComics.

It wasn’t me. I’m not tall.

Full Moon Day

I prefer a brush over a comb.

A story like that is as rare as hen’s teeth.

Bailing wire with a twist repaired that cock’s pecker.

If it’s lame being the name of the game. I am getting fit for a crow walking boot this coming Tuesday.

But what about your chronic sinus headache and post nasal drip?

Well, hey, there are shops out there for things to keep your pecker up.

Today’s graphic shows an anti-pecking bit, to prevent feather pecking (pulling out the feathers of other chickens). With the bit in place, the chicken’s beak can’t close completely, so it can’t get the strong close grip required to grab and pull out feathers (or bits of skin). Normal eating and drinking is unaffected.

I found an anti-pecking bit in my bucket of chicken. I should sue.

I read in the lamestream news not too long ago about Beauty the eagle who had had her broken beak (shot off by a poacher) restored cosmetically by 3-D printing, in a way that leads me to believe that the episode was the inspiration for today’s peevish pecker piece. See: http://tinyurl.com/bxaxjkb .

FYI, I have no tattoos, nor am I tall.

It looks like Miss Teresa lost a few subscribers today. Coincidence? Darn chicken haters!

Leave it to a tall handsome stranger to be wired and ready every time chicken.

Anyone home?