Chicken picks, or pecks, Raiders for Final Four
Mar 14, 2007 21:57:53 GMT -5
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Chicken picks, or pecks, Raiders for Final Four
By Michelle Hiskey
Cox News Service
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
College basketball, meet Sarah.
She's got the wide-eyed, furtive look of a fan trying to predict the winning teams of March Madness.
Only she's a chicken — a speckled Sussex hen in southwest Atlanta who pecked a bracket that might look like yours.
She sized up the field game by game.
A pair of cards with tournament pairings were placed in front of her, and she pecked (or scratched) her choice.
When she lost interest, five lookalike hens also named Sarah provided backup off the bench.
Under the cards was cracked corn. So seeding was a factor.
Sarah's pecks for the Final Four in the Georgia Dome: Florida, Texas A&M, Washington State and — in a plucky move — No. 14 Wright State, named for the fathers of flight.
So she probably laid an egg. Owners Ben and Adrainne Gray — he's an AJC photographer — collect four each morning.
Sarah's winner? Defending champion Florida.
No big surprise. Gator, after all, tastes like chicken.
Chicken picks, or pecks, Raiders for Final Four
By Michelle Hiskey
Cox News Service
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
College basketball, meet Sarah.
She's got the wide-eyed, furtive look of a fan trying to predict the winning teams of March Madness.
Only she's a chicken — a speckled Sussex hen in southwest Atlanta who pecked a bracket that might look like yours.
She sized up the field game by game.
A pair of cards with tournament pairings were placed in front of her, and she pecked (or scratched) her choice.
When she lost interest, five lookalike hens also named Sarah provided backup off the bench.
Under the cards was cracked corn. So seeding was a factor.
Sarah's pecks for the Final Four in the Georgia Dome: Florida, Texas A&M, Washington State and — in a plucky move — No. 14 Wright State, named for the fathers of flight.
So she probably laid an egg. Owners Ben and Adrainne Gray — he's an AJC photographer — collect four each morning.
Sarah's winner? Defending champion Florida.
No big surprise. Gator, after all, tastes like chicken.