1,200 Calif. chickens to retire on the East Coast

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Their egg-laying days behind them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retirement on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages and have plenty of room to spread their wings.

The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/177fN36) that an anonymous $50,000 donation is funding Operation Chicken Airlift, which will send the hens on a cross-country cargo flight to upstate New York on Wednesday evening.

From there the white Leghorn chickens will be ferried to different sanctuaries. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary in New York, where 200 of the birds will end up, is providing perches, grass and even a wooded area where they can roam.

Laying hens are generally too lean for human consumption and are usually slaughtered after they stop providing eggs.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20130904/US-ODD--Chicken.Airlift/

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Did you know that the only two things that may legally spill as a load onto a highway from a vehicle in California are clear water and chicken feathers? It's California Vehicle Code section 23114(a).

It's one of the most boring legal facts I know about California.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Did you know that the only two things that may legally spill as a load onto a highway from a vehicle in California are clear water and chicken feathers? It's California Vehicle Code section 23114(a).

It's one of the most boring legal facts I know about California.

Yep. Isn't actually feathers from live birds?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Yep. Isn't actually feathers from live birds?

Yes -- has to be live birds. I had looked into this once to see if I could throw feathers from a car for the hell of it but no. Infinite sadness.

[GandD 5,966]

Did you know that the only two things that may legally spill as a load onto a highway from a vehicle in California are clear water and chicken feathers? It's California Vehicle Code section 23114(a).

It's one of the most boring legal facts I know about California due to chicken smuggling.

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