Found this carving at Kilberry this afternoon and thought it just had to grace the site. I particularly like the way one leg is lifted in that classic cockrel pose:
Stone the chook!
Sunday, 2 April 2006 — patthechooks4 Responses to “Stone the chook!”
Leave a comment
Toggies on Flickr
Pat the Chooks 
Monday, 3 April 2006 at 9:08 am
Interesting carving.
Recall asking a family member once who had cut some stone figures for churches, as well as cutting a life-size cocker spaniel dog with wavy hair, how he knew how and where to cut the stone. He said, “You just cut away what you don’t want.”
Monday, 3 April 2006 at 2:50 pm
Looks as though that carving would make a good rubbing – one that could be framed. Not that I’ve ever tried it.
Monday, 3 April 2006 at 7:46 pm
I think the carving is too deep to make a rubbing, but I don’t really know too much about rubbings. It’s a good inch or so deep from the surface. It only occurred to me after I posted it that the profile picture that’s currently showing (which is Chalky) has him in an almost identical pose!
Wednesday, 5 April 2006 at 11:57 am
Hey, that’s uncanny. (But canny of you to have noticed it.}