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He said he and five co-workers caught about 60,000 chickens in one night. One guy caught eight chickens at one time.
Kevin Skinner of Mayfield told the celebrity judges on NBC's "America's Got Talent" on Tuesday night that he worked as a "chicken catcher." After the guffaws from the crowd and snickers and eye-rolling from the judges, Skinner shut up the house with his rendition of Garth Brooks' "If Tomorrow Never Comes." After his performance, choked up throats, moist eyes and judges' compliments replaced the arena's silence.
Skinner is a great talent who can go all the way to the $1 million prize awaiting the winner of TV's largest talent show. Isn't it a shame that because of Skinner's country drawl, dress and demeanor before singing that people would think him a hick, a hillbilly, a joke, without giving himself a chance to prove himself. I am from California and have lived in the Southeast for 15 years, and after that short a time I have grown rather tired of Southerner bashing. Maybe I am more empathetic because I am from Southern California.
Anyway, Skinner is great. He deserves to win. And for those who still don't know, chicken catching is a legitimate job on a farm. How do you all think chickens on non-automated farms get in the cages on the trucks for slaughter at the processing plant? Did you think they lined up and voluntarily walk to their doom? Calling out "Here chick, chick, chick," doesn't work either? The greased-lightning fast birds must be wrangled and caught.
