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Oh what a little sweetie Abby, I adore Pekins and miss mine so much.
I am incredulous about Tiffany's age, how can she be 26 or was that a typing error?

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26 is Tiffany's correct age, her sister Emma also a Silkie died a couple of years ago at age of 24 but she was more fortunate in that she did not go blind. Her daughter Cassandra was a Polish bantam and was Tiffany's carer for about 12 months and died at the age of 17.

I have read in US there was a chook that lived to the age of 32.

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I had no idea that chickens could live to that age. That is amazing.

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I think the most amazing part that most people do not know is that the chicken are smarter than a human toddlers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...gineering.html

The patience and empathy Ella shows Tiffany is in ways a lot more caring than humans show to each other.

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Well apparently the oldest recorded hen was 16, so if you're sure of your facts I would give the Guiness Book of Records a call and get her recorded, I should think they'd be very interested. Do you have that where you are?
I certainly have never heard anything like it, and would never have thought it remotely possible - so you must be doing something right Abby! In fact, I want some of what they're having

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I was amazed to hear the chicken was 26
I looked it up and it said 15 to 20 wasn't unusual so I'd definitely call the Guinness Book of Records, or maybe get it on Wikipedia somehow.

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Everyday second day they get a tossed salad with a hardboiled egg and on alternate days I chop some dogroll meat into their salad, plus micropellets and whatever they can find around the garden - Enjoy Mups

PS. And not a wrinkle to be seen on her

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I belong to an American Chicken forum and there is a lady there with a chook aged 32.