Murphy's Educated Chickens was a specialty act of some notoriety in the Weatherfield club circuit. Megan Morgan got started in the business as part of the act when she was a juvenile, but left to form her own act as she didn't get on with her female co-star. According to ventriloquist Charlie Bracewell, on one Sunday in Cleethorpes the co-star in question throttled the star chicken. In July 1989, while trying to get bookings for a disappearing hamster act, Alec Gilroy promised a client that it was the best animal act since Murphy's Educated Chickens.