There were chickens which had been specially bred to have 6 legs (hence more drumsticks)...the problem was, nobody could catch them.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that chickens reproduced A sexually and that roosters were just handicapped chickens. — Teena Strang
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think that turkeys were male chickens. Don't know why, but I did.— Felicia
- I used to believe that they shoot the chickens we eat one by one at the farm.— A
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- i thought chickens laid peanuts.
— pikl