Jim Perdue Jim Perdue is an American businessman. He has been the chairman and advertising spokesperson of Perdue Farms since 1991.

The company was founded in 1920 by Arthur Perdue with his wife, Pearl Perdue, who had been keeping a small flock of chickens. The company started out selling table eggs, then in 1925, Perdue built the company's first hatchery, and switched to selling layer chicks to farmers instead of eggs.

The company's now-famous slogan, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken®,” helped make PERDUE® a household name.

by God Perdue is a surname of English & Irish origin. It comes from Old French's par Dieu or 'by God', which was adopted into Middle English as an altered form. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Perdue, founder of Perdue Farms. Bev Perdue (born 1948), Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, 2009–2013.

The Perdue family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Perdue families were found in USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 32 Perdue families living in Virginia.

If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The PERDUE® brand is the number-one brand of fresh chicken in the U.S., with a rapidly growing lineup of no-antibiotics-ever products under the PERDUE®, PERDUE® SIMPLY SMART® Organics® and PERDUE® HARVESTLAND® brands, and USDA certified organic chicken under the PERDUE® HARVESTLAND® Organic brand.

Perdue is a surname of English & Irish origin. It comes from Old French's par Dieu or 'by God', which was adopted into Middle English as an altered form.

John Purdue, a local merchant, gave $150,000 to begin the University. Tippecanoe County gave $50,000 and local residents gave 100 acres for the new university. The Indiana State Legislature agreed to name the new school Purdue in gratitude to its largest benefactor.

Chicken Little : Runt, just do it. It'll work. We'll survive!

Fly the coop When a chicken is accused of having flown the coop, it means that the chicken has escaped from their coop and is now flying or roaming free. Idiomatically, we use fly the coop to mean “to leave suddenly or secretly” or “to escape or go away” or “to leave home.”

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