I mentioned that Peanut is the oldest living chicken. It's still there.ĭARWIN: And Peanut just kind of stayed the same. KELLY: So you could see all these children getting older in the pictures and the chicken's. And then I have a picture that was marked on the back, 3-year-old Maya (ph) with 3-year-old Peanut. Because she seemed to recognize him and jumped right up on him like she always did. And when he came back, he could not believe that Peanut was still alive.ĭARWIN. So she's just really an attention-monger.ĭARWIN: So I had a lot of pictures of a lot of people holding her, including a friend of ours who moved out to California for 18 years. And I photographed her with my nieces and nephews that love to hold her. I took pictures from day one practically, but through the years. So she was very distinctive looking and with a black tail. Obviously, I guess they had to give me a little benefit of the doubt because - how do you prove that all those pictures are the same chicken? She has some speckles, and she's a golden brown. KELLY: How does one go about proving to Guinness recordkeepers that you have the world's oldest living chicken?ĭARWIN: Well, I take a lot of pictures. It just means we have to give everybody a chance. And I didn't think she had much of a chance, which, to me, is so ironic, you know?ĭARWIN: And then she lives all these years.ĭARWIN: But (laughter) - so I guess, I don't know. She was kind of a wrinkled up, little, wadded up mess in my hand. And so I just decided I had to peel it out, and so that I did.ĭARWIN: Yup. And I held the egg up to my ear, and sure enough, the egg was chirping.ĭARWIN: And against all odds - because I'm sure it had been sitting in the nest for at least a day - it was cold to the touch, but somebody was alive and well inside. And just as I was about to pitch it into the water, I thought I heard a noise. So I walked down to our pond to pitch it in the water where it wouldn't attract animals. And the egg was cold and, I assumed, dead. Her mother had hatched several chicks and was busy with them. Describe how you first met her.ĭARWIN: Yes. I want to start at the other end of Peanut's life, which I gather was not easy. MARSI PARKER DARWIN: Thank you very much. For more, we have reached out to Marsi Parker Darwin, who is Peanut's guardian. And we learned via The Washington Post that Peanut, who is a bantam hen, has been officially crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest living chicken. She is 21 years young, lives on a farm in Waterloo, Mich. You know that old phrase often applied to someone not as young as they used to be, that they are no spring chicken? Well, it could be fairly applied to Peanut.
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