Wicked chickens

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Wicked Chickens Charlie's Dad wins at Bingo and at last his dream can come true - a cottage with roses at the door and chickens scratching in the yerd, laying lvely brown eggs...or so he thinks.

It's a disaster! The family ends up having to rent and their six dream chickens are scrawny, bad-tempered thins. And suddenly, instead of six, there are ten. And the next day fifteen. They start pecking at the windows, staring in with their beady eyes. And then there are twenty chickens...twenty-five...thirty...The wicked chickens have come home to roost!