Henmania! ; As One Couple Spend 2,000 On Vet's Bills for Their Beloved Bird, a Fellow Chicken Fancier Explains Why We Britons Have Gone Poultry Potty

Daily MailAugust 24, 2007

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HAVE they gone henpeckin' crazy? Are they utterly clucking mad? Vicky Mills, 24, and her 23-year-old husband Sam, from Cwmbran, South Wales, have taken out a 2,000 bank loan and scrimped for a year, even giving up their holidays, just to provide medical care for a three year-old called Lily. And Lily is not their daughter.

She is not even their pet dog. No, Lily is a chicken.

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Henmania! ; As One Couple Spend 2,000 On Vet's Bills for Their Beloved Bird, a Fellow Chicken Fancier Explains Why We Britons Have Gone Poultry Potty

Specifically, she is a Rhode Island Red hen, who got her left leg trapped in a barbed-wire fence. Her injuries were so severe, she had to have seven operations, culminating in an amputation or perhaps that should be a 'carve-up', as we more normally call it when separating a chicken leg from the main carcass. Lily was even tr...

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