As It Happens The world's oldest chicken has 'a love for life'

Life has not always been easy for Pearl, the world's oldest living chicken.

She once broke her leg fleeing a raccoon attack. Her fellow hens have tried to kill her. She suffered bouts of chicken pox and pneumonia. And these days, her arthritis tilts her body to one side, and her best friend is a mop.

"She's been through a lot," Pearl's owner, Sonya Hull of Little Elm, Texas, told guest host Aarti Pole.

And yet, the feisty 14-year-old fowl survived it all to become world's oldest chicken, according to Guinness World Records . Or at least, Hull admits, the oldest chicken whose owner bothered filling out the paper work.

The fame, says Hull, has not gone to Pearl's head.

"She doesn't seem to be fazed by it at all."

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