Word: fur-fowl
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...TIME warns Sweden's lepo-ornithol-ogists not to boo too loudly, reminds them that Indiana's fur-fowl is known to lay only sterile eggs...
...have never been able to see it, but I was told by one who should know that fur-fowl is being bred successfully in this state. The fur-fowl is a cross-breed between New Zealand Red Hare and a Buff Orpington Hen. The offspring, which is hatched from an egg, has the head of a hare, with long ears and brown eyes. It has the body of a chicken, and a hare's tail. It walks on two legs, like a chicken, and, in place of wings or forelegs, it has short stubs that swing back and forth...
...fur-fowl is covered with fur, which is very similar to that of a hare, and it eats grain, vegetables and grass. It is especially fond of alfalfa. The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral...
What worries the Fur-fowl Breeders Association of Indiana is that all the eggs laid so far have been sterile...
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