As you probs recall but wish you didn't, the Times animal sex beat has recently encompassed horse sex, duck dicks, frog humping, and tortoise happy ending massage. Today's addition to the litany is about a pair of sexually frustrated chickens. Why are they frustrated? Because someone thought it would be a good idea to raise them inside of her Manhattan co-op. (Co-op coop!) Actually, maybe this is also another instance of "rich people now living like poor people" reportage, too! It's a lot of things. But mostly, it's about the bad kind of anthropomorphism.

This egg was never going to hatch, and after a few weeks, she gave up. I got her back into the cage. But she ran out again, straight to the same corner, and sat down on the end of an extension cord. That was it for me. The poor thing was trying to hatch a plug. This chicken needed a mate.

Seriously, somebody find that hen a nice duck gentleman, stat!

All Cooped Up In A Manhattan Co-Op [NYT]