One day this car just pulls up and drops off this Chicken for us to keep and look after. We have no idea why or who they were. We had never seen or met them before, they just brought us a live Chicken. Now we had a Chicken.
The next problem was what to call him. We settled on FERNANDO as that is a play on many things. First of all we are all Vegetarian as you know, we do not eat chicken. Then remember the ABBA song "Can you hear the drums Fernando" - now drums could be chicken "drumsticks"! LOL! Wait, there is more!! There is a fast food chicken outlet here in South Africa that is very trendy and have the funniest adverts and they are called "Nando's"!! So we decided on Fernando.
He went everywhere with us, well to work and home that is, he had his own basket he would happily get into for transportation, we used to have to run after him all day at work cleaning up poo, but the people adored Fernando.
He used to sleep in my bed and used to chase Charlie Brown off his daytime bed. You can see Charlie Brown being very freaked out in the photo. We did get him Chicken food, but Fernando preferred dog biscuits. He just grew bigger and bigger and bigger, he was the biggest Chicken you had ever seen. We used to have to bath him as he would get full of grease from going under cars to investigate and once he nearly plucked my eye out, he thought my eye looked yummy and that it was something he could eat. If I was not wearing glasses, I would only have one eye today!! :-) It is bad enough I only have one ear that works.
Anyway, Fernando was loved by everyone that came into contact with him. But he turned out to be a Rooster and when he did sleep outside he would wake the neighborhood up and we got complaints and had to give him away to people who owned a farm. They promised that they would never cook and eat him. To this day we do not know what ever happened in the rest of Fernando's life, but he sure had a good time when he lived with us!
You will see photos of him in his little bed, on my bed after a bath, chasing Charlie Brown and sitting on top of the sofa at The Lizzard Lounge. So there you have the story of the mysterious Fernando. :-) Just view him in all his glory now! - Baz x x x
PS: I actually am not really sure why we had to get rid of Fernando, but I do know my mother had a Chicken that was a rooster that woke everyone up and had to get rid of him. I am almost sure it was the same with Fernando, for the life of me now I cannot remember, I will have to ask Bubsy when I see her, you know me and my memory, they do not live together any more! LOL! :-)
