Chicken hugs, ears, vocabularies

Ever hugged a chicken? Not me. I’ve caught a few. Does that count? My friend, Beverly, hugs her chickens routinely and whispers sweet nothin’s in their ears. Do chickens have ears? By contrast, my friend, Sally (not her real name), has a deep-seated fear of and aversion to chickens. Not even for $50,000 would she hold one. I’m not sure where she came up with that figure, but tha...