CHICKENS

Sat Apr 9 21:42:20 EDT 2005

Whats left to say, flying chickens shot out of a mail box, now I've heard it all but that does sound like something T. Bell would come up with.  You say the record still stands, have to think about that one.....Wayne S.

Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:I left out the first chicken flying event ever in Texas. It took place at 
one of those meat cooking events in Oak Hill back when Oak Hill was a place 
that was habitable.

Robert Burns, Tony Bell and I conjured up this event. We got the rules from 
the Intenational office in Ohio. And built a chicken flying launching 
device. The chicken has to start their flight 10 feet off the ground... I 
can't recall wether they sent it to us in feet or meters but I believe it 
was , no for sure it was feet. You then have a rural mail box the big kind. 
Cut the back out for placing the chicken and put a spring on the door that 
can be pulled from the ground below at the moment of launch. The launcher 
has a plumbers helper or inducer to poke the reluctant chickens in the ass 
if they won't fly. They have 10 seconds to sikdadle. If they don't fly the 
inducer is used to induce flight or falling. The measuring person, usually a 
local cheerleader or beauty queen in tank top and short shorts measures from 
the bottom of the pole. The pole is attached to some sort of platform with 
steps leading up for the contestants to bring their chicken to the launcer 
person. At the international event a vet is present to check to see if the 
chicken is a chicken and that no drugs are being used. Oh yes there is also 
weight. The various chickens are weighed and sign in in weight classes. 
Leghorns are among the heavy weights and don't fly for shit.

Anyway back to Oak Hill. Burns came up with a rocket propelled chciken. A 
frozen chicken from HEB with a rocket implanted and a seies of wires which 
led to a plunger.. "Fire in the Hole." KABOOM! and we needed another 
mailbox, or the one we had needed cleaning and repair.

Kung Flewk by the way flew 1.6 feet in Ohio. The world record is still hers 
however and her off spring may still be seen around Luckenbach

Aloha:
Igor

>From: Wayne Smith <smitty78659 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: CHICKENS
>Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:33:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
>IGOR: Now that's one hellava story, no one in their right mind could 
make something like that up unless it were Steven Spilberg or equal. I 
didn't know of such an organization, does it still exist or has it also Gone 
With The Wind ? Needless to say you must have quite an edcuation when it 
comes to foul, etc. I pray that from time to time I can call upon you to 
answer a question or two ? Is it safe to assume that you came/come from the 
areas mentioned in your note ? Must be amongest the last and dying breed of 
the good ole boys......Another chicken lover is always welcome at my door, 
we have a spot of land in the Bastrop area and raise chickens, white doves, 
dogs, cats, ghopers, and sticker burrs y'all be welcome 
anytime..........Wayne (The Baron of Bastropia) Smith NOT to be confused 
with Wayne Senior (The Rev for short)
>
>Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Having raised chickens for years they are probably molting. The way 
around
>this is to have different breeds of chickens. I preffer having Aracaunas 
and
>Bantums. bantums fyl well which I think is muy cool and played into my
>"Chicken Flying" career in the seventies.
>
>I was in charge of the Texas Chicken Flying Association which was at the
>time a member in good standign of the International Chicken Flying
>Association base in Galipolis Ohio.
>
>For awhile there were sanctioned events state wide. Del Rio, Austin,
>Oatmeal, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Galveston, and so forth. THe 
championship
>of Texas was in San Antonio twice and in Luckenbach thrice. In San 
Antonio
>you bring a chicken you get in free. THere were 80 entries. Some guy 
entered
>a hawk with a waddle attached, a fake chicken? It flew to the top of the
>Tower of the Americas and was never seen again. Another fake chicken was 
a
>dove with pasted on waddle that flew well but not as well as the hawk.
>
>Kung Flewk was and is the champion of Texas. She flew 356 feet at 
Luckenbach
>and was entered in the International even in Ohio. Due to airline screw 
ups,
>Braniff sent Kung to Atlanta instead of Huntsville W.Va. She arrived 
with
>jet lag and wasn't able to perform well though she made CBS news and CBC 
and
>Sports Illustrated.
>
>The chickens would sometimes escape and reproduce. Round Rock for years 
had
>a ferrel chicken problem caused by escaped flyers. At one point the 
chciekns
>had mulitplied into three or four flocks of twenty plus and they were
>destroying gardens. The animal control guys were at a loss as to how to
>catch the chickens...
>
>
>Aloha:
>Igor
>
>
>
> >From: Pepi Plowman <pepstoil at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 
60s
><austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> >To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
><austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> >Subject: Re: CHICKENS and MUSIC or MUSIC and CHICKENS - seriously
> >Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Keep us posted on results. There are lots of reasons
> >hens won't lay. Are they molting?
> >pep
> >--- Wayne Smith <smitty78659 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks Pepi, I'll give that a try next time I'm out
> > > visitng my Son I'll bring YOU some
> > > eggs..............Wayne S.
> > >
> > > Pepi Plowman <pepstoil at yahoo.com> wrote:Several
> > > suggestions from the peanut gallery:
> > >
> > > Indian ragas from Madeleine, I suggest Mozart or
> > > Vivaldi--but Madeleine says that's too jazzed up.
> > > Maybe some African sukka--or Brazilian bossa nova.
> > > Calm music--how about an environmental music, like
> > > sound of rain, surf, waterfalls? Piano pieces like
> > > Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) or Claire de Lune
> > > (Debussy)? Just tune in KPFA 89.5 and see what
> > > happens? I doubt they would get off on Prokofiev or
> > > Stravinsky, though.
> > > pep
> > > --- Wayne Smith wrote:
> > > > I'm serious - O>K - Somewhere out there one or
> > > more
> > > > of you have degrees in Biology - Right ??? Well
> > > > here's one for the books, just back from the Feed
> > > > Store and over heard a conversation having to do
> > > > with keeping a radio (music) on all the time.
> > > Seems
> > > > there are certain kinds of music that keeps
> > > chickens
> > > > calm therefore they lay better....Could this be
> > > true
> > > > or like everything else just a bunch of chicken do
> > > > do.........If this bs is true what kind of music
> > > > would or could work best ? I await the wisdom of
> > > > the ages.............Wayne S. (The Baron of
> > > course)
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