I live in the city in Chicago, so I never figured I’d see a live chicken wandering around my neighborhood. But it’s something I’ve actually seen on occasion. I’m assuming some hipster is doing urban farming somewhere around here, and a chicken got out of their coop. I bet if their coop looked like this one, their chickens would never want to leave.
This awesome UFO-shaped chicken coop was put together by the guys at Idaho’s Backyard Chickens, and it’s a truly out of this world build. Its main domed shell is actually built from a pair of upcycled old satellite dishes.
It’s been upgraded with lots of features like waterproofing, windows, ventilation, remote-controlled heat emitters, LED lighting, and even surveillance cameras for keeping an eye on the chickens and their eggs inside. Of course, it’s also got easy egg access. It’s clear from the video clip that the chickies love their extraterrestrial new home…
If you’d like to build a UFO chicken coop of your own, head over to Backyard Chickens to check out the full build log. Amazing job, guys!
From bells to radio stations to gentle chimes, there are lots of different ways to wake up in the morning. But if I had to choose, I’d prefer to be awakened by a cheerful light-up chicken. Thank goodness somebody already makes one.
This adorable cordless chicken lamp doubles as an alarm clock, and can wake you with a gradually increasing light, along with chicken sounds to get you going. Gently touch its comb with your hand to snooze the chick until you’re ready to wake up.
The soft, silicone-bodied chickie also works as a glowing ambient night light, and offers a time delay feature so it can turn off as you nod off to slumberland, counting your chickens before they hatch. It’s USB rechargeable, and offers 4 hours of bright light, or 18 hours of dim light per charge.
You can grab your own Wake Up Chicken for about $36 over on Amazon.
As much as I like to talk about weird foods, I somehow missed this new Taco Bell invention that was announced back on January 10. That is sort of ok because it only showed up at Taco Bell locations yesterday. It’s called the Naked Chicken Chalupa.
The thing here is that the chicken is the shell and the shell is the chicken (at least that is how Taco Bell describes it). Essentially you have a chicken patty fried up all curved to hold the condiments to the chicken chalupa. Inside the thing, you can get the regular taco fillings like lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, along with a special avocado ranch sauce.
You can get just the Naked Chicken chalupa for $2.99 or you can get it in a combo box, which comes with a Doritos Locos taco, crunchy taco, and a medium drink for $5.
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If you are a football fan you know that Super Bowl LI (that’s 51 for those of you who don’t speak Roman) is coming in 10 days, and many fans are already preparing for their parties. One of the most popular foods to eat during the big game are chicken wings. The National Chicken Council has dropped some facts that shed some light on just how many flats and drumettes will be gnashed on during the big game.
According to the council, enough wings will be eaten that if placed end to end they would circle the Earth nearly three times. Dang. A total of 1.33 billion wings are expected to be consumed. That number of wings would stretch from Gillette Stadium in Mass to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta nearly 80 times.
All those wings would weigh 166.25 million pounds, or about 338 times more than the combined weight of all 32 NFL teams. If you took one of those big ol’ linemen and fed him two wings per minute, it would take a single man over 1,265 years to eat all 1.33 billion wings.
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