Jerusalem+Matt. 23:37:Hen/chickens:LEGHORN

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Jerusalem+Matthew 23:37: Hen gathereth her chickens: LEGHORN





Crown Ratio Report
by : Disciple of the Crown (Tagin)
August 12th, 2008

Title : Leghorn hen, raises Bantam rooster








http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/ARS-White_Leghorn_hen.jpg

In my childhood, my daddy always had `Bantam` chickens. For the
reader not knowing what a Bantam is . . . here you go . . .

EXCERPT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_(chicken)
A true bantam has no large counterpart, and is naturally small.

In contrast, the Bantam rooster is famous in rural areas throughout the United Kingdom and the United States for its aggressive, "puffed-up" disposition that can be comedic in light of its diminutive stature. It is often called a "Banty" in the rural United States.


. . . Throughout our moving around until my school age, along
the journey . . . daddy would locate some chickens, to run around
outside. He loved fresh farm eggs.

. . . Some of the rare chickens, would produce colored eggs. Others
were like the Bantam breed, mini-chickens. Here is proof of the
colored eggs, for the reader doubting this story . . . (ha) . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chicken_eggs.jpg


Chicken eggs vary in color depending on the hen, typically ranging from bright white to shades of brown and even blue, green, and recently reported purple (found in South Asia) (Araucana varieties).


One day, he found a baby layer chicken, white Leghorn breed :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Leghorn.jpg


I raised her, into my personal ' Tweetie-bird `.

The Bantam breed, looked very dwarf next to my full grown Leghorn
breed chicken.

A day came, when one of the Bantam hens disinherited a Bantam
rooster, chick.

So I ask, " Tweetie-bird " . . . would she take care of him ?

With some reluctance, I persisted as children will do with their favorite
pets, to encourage her to obey me.

I would place the Bantam rooster, under the big broad white wing
of `Tweetie-bird`. And push her gently toward the ground, to teach her
to allow him to be under the shelter of her wings.

And within a few afternoons, prior to sundown via these training's . . .
she was on her journey of motherhood, without any former practice.

You see, she was the only white Leghorn breed chicken, the others
were all Bantam. So she had no opportunity to become a mother. I
continued giving her treats, to reward her nightly `roosting` of allowing
the Bantam rooster under her wing.

As Bantam rooster grew into a dwarf rooster breed, he was so very
much like the wikipedia commentary above, ". . . aggressive, "puffed-up" disposition that can be comedic in light of its diminutive stature . . .".

Until, the nightly roosting time came.

And all that `ego` just fell to the curb.

He never stopped getting under `Tweetie-birds`, wing. His entire Bantam
life, he slept at night under her wing.

When he became the largest dwarf Bantam, an adult rooster could
become, his body would cause `Tweetie-bird`, to raise off the ground.
You could see her pinkish/red feet, just a shining.

(Ha) . . . Sometimes, she would get tired of that on-going arrangement
and fly up onto a lower tree limb.

However, he was very persuasive. By the next morning, I would
find him out of sight, under her wing. I guess she could not stay
out on the tree limb, with all that grumbling going on ?

Why, have I remembered this story ?

Because, I know how important it is to be sheltered under the
hen's wing. And my 'Tweetie-bird` adopted a bird not of her
own brood. Like the `grafted vine` of all non-Jewish believers.
With this childhood lesson, it has prepared me for the lesson's
being taught in Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34.


I hope you laughed and I hope your blessed in sharing the
meaning of , my chicken story called, `Leghorn hen, raises Bantam rooster`.


EXCERPT:
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/C/CHICKEN/

CHICKEN

chik'-'-n, chik'-in (Anglo-Saxon, cicen or cycen; Latin, Gallus ferrugineus; alektruon, masculine and fem.): A barnyard fowl of any age. The record is to be found in the books of the disciples, but Jesus is responsible for the only direct mention of chickens in the Bible. Mt 23:37, contains this: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" Luke's version of the same scene says: "Even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings" (Lk 13:34).