A man was driving down a country road, enjoying the scenery, when a chicken came running along and passed him.
Quite surprised at this, the man sped up to overtake the chicken and then matching his speed with the bird's, found the chicken was racing along at 80 mph. He also noticed that the remarkable bird had three legs.
As the man puzzled over what he was seeing, the pair came to a farmer's lane down which the chicken turned and headed for its coop.
The man also pulled into the lane. Seeing a farmer standing by the barn, the man drove over to talk to him.
"I just saw a chicken with three legs running down the road doing 80 mph!" the man explained.
"Well," said the farmer, "You see, I live with my wife and daughter and we all like drumsticks. So in order to avoid fights I specially bred chickens to have three legs so we'd all get a drumstick."
"That's a good idea," the man responded. "Do they taste any good?"
"Don't know. Haven't caught one yet."
Author unknown.
