ALEX: It's just the choice of which one to...
ADELE: Pick the one with the least feathers
SPENCER: Don't pick that ratty little one with shit around...
JADE: I'll not eat that
ALEX: No, we'll not get that one. I'll tell you one that's a nice one -- it's the female version of the cock. 'Cos that one looks nice and clean.
JADE: The blonde one?
ALEX: (nods) Yeah.
JADE: Sandy says that's me. You're going to kill me!
ALEX: Oh, even better!
JADE: He calls that chicken 'Jade'
SPENCER: Well, let's kill it then. We'll throw the head over if we've got a wall.

ALEX: Don't worry about it Jade. It will be good.
JADE: Oh, you're not really going to kill it anyway, so don't...
ALEX: Erm, why not?! It's food.
ADELE: Exactly.
ALEX: Plenty of people go to the supermarket....I mean, someone has to... I'm sure we'll have a more humane way of doing it, cos I've heard they have their legs hang up on a conveyor belt and they go round, and these choppy things cut their heads off, and sometimes they're still moving around.
PJ: That's where the phrase headless chicken comes from isn't it
ADELE: Oh god, don't let it run around
ALEX: No we won't let it
JADE: Oh my... eurghh
ALEX: We'll make it as decent as we can
SPENCER: They won't show it anyway
ALEX: No they won't show it, but if we do do it we can't do it near any of the other chickens because they'll go crazy otherwise.
JADE: Would they? Really?
ALEX: Yeah. We'll have to do it away from the chickens, otherwise they won't lay any eggs. That's providing we get the chickens...

ALEX: Hello. Erm... the beggars on our side, we'd like to know if things were to get desperate, would there be a problem, if we do it in a humane way, of terminating the life of certain chickens -- to eat?

BB: Alex, it is your responsibility to look after the house and garden and all the contents.
Vegetables and livestock are provided -- they must be cared for.

ALEX: Bu - but we look after the vegetables, but we still eat them. So we can look after the chickens, and we can still eat them as well.

BB: Do you think that killing the chickens would constitute caring for them?

ALEX: Eh... But- you're just asking us questions. I've been sitting in here, we'd like to have a yes or no with the chickens, because, Adele has no problem with killing them, she's done it before, I can pluck 'em...
And we've got a barbecue as well...and roast chicken sounds kind of nice, when we've got nothing.

BB: Alex, no chickens are to be killed.

ALEX: Thank you Big Brother.

ALEX: Hello Big Brother.

BB: Hello Alex.

ALEX: Hello. Er... It’s just a quick question about the chickens. We’ve just had to go in and dry ’em. Er... none of us here are chicken experts, and we don’t know how to dry a chicken properly. I don’t really wanna have to dry a chicken, cos I haven’t been professionally trained.

BB: Alex, Big Brother doesn’t expect you to be a professional chicken dryer.

ALEX: Thank God for that.

BB: But Big Brother would be very grateful if you would have a look at them in the morning and let us know if they seem at all distressed.

ALEX: (laughs)  I don’t know how you tell a distressed chicken. I mean, is it in their eyes? Or is it the way they walk? I don’t know... oh I suppose it’s if they’re not their usual perky self.  I’ll throw a gooseberry in and if they go for it then I daresay they’re not distressed.

BB: Thank you Alex.

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