奇速英语

It’s 2023 now. Peanut is a chicken from a no-kill farm in Michigan. 21 years ago, her owner was getting ready to throw some bad eggs when she heard a chirp (鸣叫声) from one of them. “I heard a second chirp, and I realized that the chick was    △    and didn’t seem to have an egg tooth to get out of its shell,” Marsi Parker Darwin said. “I got it out of the egg, and there was this wet little chick, sitting in my hand.”

This little chick was very small at first, but it never grew past one pound, about one-third of the size of the other chickens on the farm, so Marsi named her “Peanut”. Marsi never imagined that the chick would be with her and her husband for over twenty years.

Marsi said that she was encouraged to apply (申请) for a Guinness Record by a friend who is also a chicken lover. He knew about a chicken named Matilda who had before held the record at age 14, only to die a couple of years later. Peanut had already beaten her record by several years, so he encouraged Marsi to apply.

Peanut is now well on her way to challenging the title of oldest chicken in recorded history. At about 21 years and a half, she is pretty close to beating the record set by Muffy, who was 23 years and 152 days old when she died 12 years ago.