Kicker: No spring chicken

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: At the ripe old age of 14, Pearl the Texas hen is officially the world’s oldest living chicken.

She’s got the battle scars to prove it, too. Here’s her owner Sonia Hull on CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

HULL: She’s been through a lot…a raccoon massacre when she was probably ten, she broke her leg trying to get away, then chicken pox, then pneumonia….

Hey, sounds like hen-durance to me!

Pearl’s spending her retirement in the laundry room, where she’s become besties with a mop.

HULL: As a matter of fact, maybe it’s the news of being so famous…last week she laid an egg. The first time in three years.

Haha, good for you, Pearl, she probably thought she was done with all that!

Well, she’s no spring chicken, but definitely a record-breaking one!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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