Just one last blog on our rooster. Every year I tell my children that I want home-made gifts from them for Christmas.  I have received great pictures, calendars, CD mixes, home movies, quote-aids (quotations written on band-aid like pieces of paper) and this year, a replica of our Lakenvelder Rooster, Michael Jackson.

David, my 15 year old, escaped to the basement, and used a jig saw to cut out an outline of a Lakenvelder rooster with plywood, and then painted it.  I LOVED it, and it’s now hanging on my kitchen wall.  It’s very professional looking I might add.  The only mistake that he made in making it is that the rooster’s mouth is not open crowing – which was pretty much the perpetual state of MJ, as you can see by the below picture.

I now need to convince him to go into production – and add Chicken Wall Hangings to his egg sales!