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Karen Pancoast's avatar

I grew up picking eggs from two chicken houses that held 250 chickens and one rooster each. We never washed the eggs either and they stayed fine. I wish for you many years of happy memories of all the stories you have told and shared.

Marilyn Matthews's avatar

Happy Birthday Hugs, Danny! Your chicken metaphor is hilarious! Love you!

Rebecca Fabos's avatar

Happy Birthday, Danny. My wish for you is that the darn rooster doesn't peck you today or from this day forward. Yes, it's a misnomer that roosters crow at dawn. They crow any time they feel like it and it's usually 3 or 4 am.

Today's essay felt like you, too, were racing around the yard, going from subject to subject, but, in the end, fulfilling the objective of the essay: to entertain and inform. I loved it.

Mariia Bykova's avatar

Very happy birthday! Thank you for your endless inspiration and kindness!

JaneeB's avatar

Happy Birthday!🎈 Thanks for all the eggs!

Bev Baird's avatar

Happy birthday! May you celebrate many, many more and hatch many, many more ideas and books. Loved this. Having had 20 chickens at one time decades ago (altho never had a rooster), your delightful piece reminded me of the joys and trials of chickens. Getting pecked trying to grab a hen, chasing chickens around they yard when they dug (yes they did!) under the fence and escaped, enjoying those eggs every morning and in cakes. Worse tho - cleaning out the henhouse - ugh.

Helen's avatar

Happy birthday Danny! My birthday wish for you is deep abiding peacefulness and family love.

Katie Waller's avatar

I always enjoy your essays... and love that chicken sketch! Happy Birthday!

Karen Roberts's avatar

Happiest of birthdays!! Thanks for sharing and teaching!

Vinterbader's avatar

Happy birthday 🎂! You could wish to have a fox visiting your neighbors chicken: Rooster's gonna be heroic and save the hens by trying to fight the fox - had chicken myself and lost several roosters but never a hen to the fox 😁 🐓

Esther Bain Bell's avatar

Happy Birthday, Danny! You have been an inspiration for me for several years! Thank you!

Will Wilson's avatar

Happy Birthday! My birthday wish for you is wisdom.

Lucy Acanfora's avatar

Happy birthday, Danny!🎉🎂🎁🎈