Meet the World's Oldest Chicken! Peanut Is a 21-Year-Old Hen Who Almost Didn't Come out of Her Shell


Meet the World's Oldest Chicken! Peanut Is a 21-Year-Old Hen Who Almost Didn't Come out of Her Shell

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Meet the World's Oldest Chicken! Peanut Is a 21-Year-Old Hen Who Almost Didn't Come out of Her Shell "I hope to share Peanut’s message that even if you’re rejected or might feel like a


misfit, you can still find someone to bond with and have a long, productive life,” the hen’s owner told 'The Washington Post'

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Insider.People Editorial GuidelinesPublished on September 6, 2023 07:24PM EDT Peanut, the 21-year-old chicken who currently holds the Guinness World Record for oldest living chicken.Credit :


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Peanut is the world’s oldest chicken.


Marsi Parker Darwin now considers the bird part of her family but if the retired Michigan librarian had not discovered Peanut trapped in a seemingly rotten egg 21 years ago, she would not be


alive to claim her title, according to The Washington Post.


Over two decades ago, Darwin, now 71, stumbled upon a rotten, abandoned chicken egg that she believed would not hatch. She was ready to throw the egg into a pond (where it would become


turtle food) when she heard a sound from within it.


“I heard a second chirp, and I realized that the chick was alive and didn’t seem to have an egg tooth to get out of its shell,” she told The Post, an observation she made after seeing a


tiny, barely visible crack in the egg’s exterior.


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