In 2006, Petaluma, California survived an invasion of zombie chickens. The hens involved had reached menopause and were no longer laying eggs. They were humanely(?) euthanized by suffocating them in a box filled with carbon dioxide and then buried in a landfill.
Citizens were shocked later to see brain-damaged chickens dig themselves out of their landfill graves and stagger around, well, like zombies.
The Pentagon actually has a detailed plan ("CONOP 8888") on how it should respond should there ever be a zombie epidemic. One of the contingencies addressed is specifically that of "CZs" ("chicken zombies").
Parenthetically, "zombies" actually refers to dead persons who are raised from the grave by practitioners of Caribbean voodoo and are under the control of a live human.* They on their own are very placid. The aggressive cannibalistic walking dead which have been a staple of movies since 1968 are technically "flesh-eating ghouls" (which is actually somewhat redundant, as ghouls traditionally are flesh-eaters by definition).
*Watch this video link to hear what Bob Hope compared to zombies.
Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. Very creepy since I have chickens. Thanks for the info.
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