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Editors Queue: Steve the Chicken

Posted by: Rachel Hulin Posted date: April 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

Our photo editors go through thousands of image submissions a day. Sometimes one is so awesome that makes the rounds immediately. Such an image is Steve the Chicken.

photo by Kevin German

“STEVE THE CHICKEN” Olivia Murphy, 5, shields her face for a moment from
a gust of wind with her favorite chicken Steve after running around for
10 minutes trying to catch him on her father’s chicken farm in Deary,
Idaho. “One time I squished a chicken so hard that an egg fell out,” she
said.

I want an egg, soft-boiled.

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3 Comments

rine.wordpress.com 4-14-2008

I love Kevin’s blog too, especially some of the older entries- it’s here: http://kevingerman.blogspot.com/ -Erin Siegal

rolo 4-15-2008

Great expression, great chicken. “. . .trying to catch him. . .” Him? Steve or not, since when is a chicken “him”?

jessamyn 4-15-2008

ew, I ate two poached eggs this morning and that quote makes me feel a little… well, squishy. ah, well, cute photo. (is “cute” bad? should I say “moody”? “dramatic”?)

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