![Silkie Chicken fuffy white with gray beak](https://hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/120934325-150x150.jpg)
Riding in my Sunday dress in the passenger side of a well-equipped Cadillac Deville down an old gravel road, I was feeling the kind of sublimity that not even my small town southern preacher could’ve gleaned from me that day. Why? Because I had a rooster on my lap.