A Turtle and a Baby Chick - Suzy's Zoo by Suzy Spafford

A turtle and a baby chick exchanging Christmas gifts.. art by Suzy Spafford 1982. 

Suzy's Zoo 

This postcard was postmarked in 2020.

 

Wooden Postcards of Roosters from Kauai, Hawaii

The Roosters

Tree Tunnel Road, Kauai, Hawaii

Both of these postcards are made of wood and postmarked in 2025.

 

Dear Santa - Just Bring Chickens!

Dear Santa - Just Bring Chickens!  

This is a greeting card that was turned into a postcard and mailed in 2024.

Maryland Fried - Chicken

Maryland Fried Chicken

1 - 3 pound frying chicken cut into serving pieces
1 cup milk or buttermilk
1 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper

Wash chicken pieces and soak in milk or buttermilk for 30 minutes.  Drain but do not dry.  Sprinkle salt liberally on both sides.  Place the flour, pepper and 1 teaspoon salt into a medium size brown paper bag.  Add chicken.  Close top of bag and shake so all pieces are coated evenly and well.  Remove chicken pieces and shake to remove excess flour.  Put on rack and Carefully place chicken pieces in skillet side by side, fleshy side down.  Cook rapidly a few minutes, making sure pieces have a firm but very light brown crust on the bottom.  Turn each piece as it reaches  this stage until all are turned.  Continue cooking one minute over high heat.  Reduce head to low and cover skillet.  Cook 20 to 30 minutes until cooked through.

Remove cover and turn heat up again to highest level.  Turn each piece as the bottom becomes golden, but not too brown, and quite crisp.  The top surface of the chicken pieces will have a soft, soggy appearance but a few minutes of hight heat crisping will restore the pieces to golden crispness.  Remove pieces to drain on paper towels.  Serve with chicken cream gravy.

--- Maryland's chicken industry is concentrated in rural sections of the lower Eastern Shore, where one grower can raise thousands of birds in a single barn like "house".  The business is Maryland's largest agricultural endeavor, contributing almost $1 billion to the state's economy.

This is postmarked in 2016. 

A Blue Hen Chicken from Kelly Glazner

Happy National Postcard Week!
May 3-9, 2015

Art by Kelly Glazner, NPCW 2015

The Delaware state bird, the Blue Hen Chicken, is a domestic bird.  During the Revolutionary War the men took with them game chickens noted for their fighting ability.  When not fighting the enemy the soldiers amused themselves by pitting their Blue Hen Chickens in cockfights.  The fame of these cockfights spread throughout the army and when in battle the Delaware men fought so valiantly that they were compared to the fighting cocks.  It was adopted as the official state bird in 1939.

This unused postcard is # 48 in a limited edition of 80

Silkies - Chickens

Silkies - so fluffy I want to die!!!!!!

These chickens are from an artist named Jacky in 2010.

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The Silkie is a breed of chicken named for its fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk. The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as black skin and bones, and five toes on each foot, whereas most chickens only have four.

Chicken in a Biskit Advertising Postcard

Chicken in a What?
Chicken in a Biskit

(We love these crackers!)

This is a BrandAid Communications postcard, and I think it is from 2002.

Rhode Island Red Rooster

Cockadoodle-Doo to you!!

This Rhode Island Red Rooster wishes you a Happy National Postcard Week 2014!

The Rhode Island Red is a breed of chicken raised for its meat and eggs.  Originally bred in Adamsville, Rhode Island, there is an elegant monument built to the birds erected there.  It became Rhode Island's state bird May 3, 1954.

Art by Kelly Glazner
Limited edition # 61 of 100

Easter Offering (Baby Chickens)

An Easter Offering

Easter Postcard
Nash E-40, ca. 1908

This is a reproduction postcard from 2009.

Chickens and Rooster for National Postcard Week

Get off my back!  And celebrate -
National Post Card Week!
May 4-10, 2008

the back reads:
Hi,
Cats and chickens live side by side on the farm.

Enjoy!
Demaris

Limited Edition 147 / 160

Looney Tunes: The Whole Gang

Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester and Tweety fishing

This is an oversized postcard from 2010.

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What I was wondering is how did they get on the pier??

A Man with a Rooster on His Head from Chad, Africa

Republique Du Tchad
Le chef de danses

Translation from French:
Republic Of Chad
The head of dances

This postcard features a man with two bowls and a chicken on his head.

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Chad is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is divided into multiple regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa.

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The music of Chad includes a number of unusual instruments such as the kinde, a type of bow harp; the kakaki, a long tin horn; and the hu hu, a stringed instrument that uses calabashes (gourds) as loudspeakers.

Elephant on an Airplane

You're charging me for TWO seats; an extra fee for my trunk, and now you've stopped giving out peanuts! ... And you call yourself a JUMBO jet!

Original Art by Dan Reynolds
2012

Donkey and Chickens from Cypress via Russia

A Nikolas Lambrou Premium Postcard, Cyrpess

the sender writes that they bought this card in Cyprus as well.

postmarked from Russia in 2010

A Joyful Easter, Chicks in Egg Cart

A Joyful Easter

Rooster

Rooster
2011