Is It a Bird? Is it a Dog?

Hold on to your eggs, Petaluma.  This is a 100% certified, bonafide, spectacular and - need I even say it - uproariously hysterical - FANCY CHICKEN from the Maui County Fair.  That's his technical name, seriously.  I would have expected something more regal and erudite... like Afghanus Cluckus, or Aussieodipus Poultraneous.   Or at least a nickname, like Rod Stewster.

Being from Petaluma, I naturally thought I knew from chickens.  But noooooo!  You have not really seen a chicken until you've seen this preening, self-fluffing little beauty  Oh yes, he does his own coiffure.  Believe it or not, there was not a hairdryer in sight.  And I watched him shiver and flap and run his beak hither and yon  until he was, well,...  presentable just so.

This and a little food coloring, and I think I now know where Peeps come from.