Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Grandpa pays $4,050 for grandson's chicken at County Fair auction


RAYMOND — For $4,050, you could buy four big screen TVs or two top of the line laptops — or a chicken? Chicken at the grocery store sells for about $2 a pound, but a live chicken sold for $4,050 at the Racine County Fair Sunday livestock auction. Butch, the 10-pound rooster sold Sunday, cost $405 per pound. "You could buy enough chickens for a lifetime with $4,000," said Ron Bretl, 65, of Raymond, who bought the Cornish Cross rooster at auction from his 12-year-old grandson, Ryan Goessl. "I think my wife was in shock. She was pulling on my leg and hollering at me." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Playboy