NEW YORK POST
The world’s oldest living chicken, who survived abandonment by her mother at birth, has died at the age of 21.
Peanut the Chicken died in her sleep in her owner’s arms on Christmas morning.
“I’m truly grieving her loss,” Marsi Parker Darwin told FOX Weather. “She was a remarkable little bird and has left a void in our home and our hearts.”
Peanut passed very peacefully, and Darwin said she was grateful for that.
Darwin recently posted an online “obituary” for Peanut, a chicken she had cared for and bonded with for 21 and a half years.
She shared that she had raised Peanut from an egg and was heartbroken despite the fact that Peanut had lived an exceptionally long life for a chicken.
“I have many years of memories with her and am so glad of that, and the fact that she touched so many people with her survival and spirit through my little book, ‘My Girl Peanut and Me.’”
Born in the spring of 2002, Peanut was a bantam breed of chicken, specifically a Belgian d’Uccle/Nankin mix.
She was raised from birth by Darwin, a retired librarian.
