Mockingbird ducks challenges to its position as Arkansas’s top bird

The Arkansas chicken wars are over, at the least for now. 

Two payments filed lately to alter the state chicken from the mockingbird to both the painted bunting or the mallard have flown south towards interim research after they have been withdrawn by their authors. 

Joe Neal

Rep. Grant Hodges (R-Centeron) filed a invoice on Monday to alter the state chicken from the relatively boring (and presumably an asshole) mockingbird to a way more colourful painted bunting. Two days later, the invoice was amended so as to add Rep. Andrew Collins (D-Little Rock) as a co-sponsor. The momentum was constructing, albeit slowly, for a brand new, colourful state chicken. 

Arkansas Recreation and Fish Fee

On Tuesday, Rep. Brit McKenzie (R-Rogers) quacked again and filed a invoice of his personal to alter the state chicken to the mallard, which is troublesome for a number of causes. 

First, Arkansas is residence to a robust duck searching trade. Are we going to ask individuals to return to our state to allow them to kill our state chicken? Appears bizarre. 

Second, male mallards are predators, with violently rapey mating customs. The New York Submit revealed a brutal exposé about mallard rape tradition and it’s DISTURBING. 

In any occasion, the chicken wars have died for now. Each payments have been despatched to the Joint Interim Committee on State Companies and Governmental Affairs. 

Perhaps they’ll rise once more like a phoenix from the state legislative ashes.

Sen. Greg Leding (D-Fayetteville), maybe delirious on the finish of an extended legislative session, poked enjoyable on the chicken wars on Twitter this morning.