Essay

Our 7-year-old daughter is absolutely thrilled with us having chickens. When her teacher gave an assignment to write about a farm animal, she -- of course -- chose chickens. Her essay was so funny, I wanted to share it. Typos are included.

"I'm going to tell you about chicks.  There are 2 reasons that I'm going to tell you about them, that go together.  One, I got a prompt that said "write about a farm animal".  Two, I have them at my house.  They are furry, they have wings, and some are called different things than others, like Bramm, Cornich Rock, and Easa Brown.  Some are good for different things.  Some could be good for meat.  Some could be good for eggs. But you can't  let the meat ones get to big because if you do, they'll explode from heart attack.  I know this because my brother's friend had some chickens and his mother couldn't kill them, and then they exploded from heart attack."