French ‘human hen’ condemned for hatching chicks
A French artist who hatched nine eggs after sitting on them for three weeks has been condemned by an animal rights group for depriving the chicks of a mother. Abraham Poincheval hardly slept in the 23 days he spent nesting inside a glass enclosure in a Paris art museum which he finally left Thursday after all but two of the eggs hatched. But animal rights group Peta said they took a dim view of the birth of the chicks, the first of which emerged on Tuesday. “There is nothing to celebrate in the birth of this chick born alone in a museum,” the group said in an open letter to the artist.