https://youtu.be/_6oHigzVvPw
Did you know: until around 1930, the main type of chicken bred for human consumption in the United States was the Brahma chicken, a very large breed of bird that was said to have originally come to the states from the port of Shanghai in China in the 1850s? So, just how large is a Brahma chicken? Well, my friends, allow me to direct your eyes to the above video uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, featuring a male rooster Brahma emerging from a hen house — with the following actual description presented without commentary, thanks to Google Translate.
When the rooster first pokes its head out, you have to wonder, okay, how big could this thing really be. And then it just keeps spilling out and spilling out until it stands tall at — I don’t know — two feet? Three feet? Either way it looks like you could put a saddle on the thing and ride it like a dang Tauntaun from Star Wars. According to Wikipedia, Brahma roosters can weigh up to 18 pounds, but I would be surprised if this beast is anything less than 25.
Once the giant chicken started making the rounds on Reddit and Twitter, people very justifiably started freaking out, because look at that frigging thing.
https://twitter.com/RosaCarryon/status/843677597473038336
I'm really uncomfortable going to bed knowing that giant chicken is out there somewhere.
— Book Jockey (@AngelaLovesNY) March 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/olenskae/status/843727192148361218
i will fight that giant chicken
— BISCUIT (@BlSCUlTS) March 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/AppletonPapi/status/843483156640620544
https://twitter.com/alexsleepwalks/status/843658211559460869
Yooo seriously wtf is that giant chicken bird from that video of it coming out of its cage. Thing prob wears size 14 shoes
— freakyG (@yung_glacier) March 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/VernonKazama/status/843708529470922752
Wide awake thinking about that giant chicken…. I need to sleep… every time I shut my eyes I see it
— Nicky (@tropicocunt) March 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/c0conut_head/status/843668203238768640
Just watched the big chicken video, and no shit, did we really think we could cut funding to PBS without Big Bird's family coming after us
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) March 19, 2017
AVENGE PBS, GIANT CHICKEN
AVEEEEEEEENGE IIIIIIIIT— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) March 20, 2017
Team whatever land that giant-ass chicken doesn’t inhabit.
(Via Huffington Post, Reddit)