“Chicken” on The Daily Caller

THOUSANDS of British women are so desperate for a bigger bottom they are risking their lives by taking pills designed to fatten up chickens. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday. (more)

Amid a rolling landscape of browning chaparral and battered trailers, Alan and Ryan Armstrong’s metal henhouses line up like military barracks. Keeping their 450,000 birds safe — and Salmonella enteritidis out of their henhouses — is a daily battle. (more)

Reporting from Washington — Food and Drug Administration officials said Thursday their investigators had homed in on chicken feed as a likely major contributor to the salmonella contamination that triggered a nationwide egg recall and potentially caused nearly 1,500 cases of illness. (more)

Faced with a crisis more than a decade ago in which thousands of people were sickened from salmonella in infected eggs, farmers in Britain began vaccinating their hens against the bacteria. That simple but decisive step virtually wiped out the health threat. (more)

It is an age-old riddle that has baffled the world’s greatest minds since the dawn of civilization: which came first the chicken or the egg? (more)

Looking for some weekend fun this summer? While you could go to your favorite local hangout or make the drive to the beach, there are a number quirky events throughout the country that are just begging to be explored. (more)

Twenty-six chickens were mysteriously beheaded at a North Pole chicken coop this week. Then things got weird. (more)

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Voters dressed in chicken costumes won’t be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year. (more)

Republican Sue Lowden may hold a commanding lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the polls in the Nevada Senate race, but Reid is determined to make her chickens come home to roost. (more)

Being chickens, they probably didn’t put too much thought into it. (more)

BEIJING — China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move sure to increase the pressure on strained Sino-US relations. (more)

Really, NBC? (more)