A Curious Hen. They seem to be always hungry now. Maybe there are too many. I should find someone to take 4 or 6 mid-mature birds as a group... They are hard to resist, so when an outgoing hen runs over to me like this I usually break down and give them some more feed, or, as a special tree, hemp seeds. It's helpful to have a few bird accustomed to eating out of the palm of your hand for when visitors come and want enjoy that "sense of wonder" with Silky chickens. It's funny how they can seem so curious, and judgmental, like some sort of prophet birds from the old Testament. Maybe Amos was a woman? I have no reason at all to come up with that question, it's just that the bird that put me into prophet-musing mode was a hen, you know like female... Not that the metaphor seems to transfer well to human societies, except for laughs..

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One of the hens went broody in the box that has been serving as a night cage for a hen and chick AND as a go-to egg-laying spot for 3 or so hens... Now I have to make sure the other hens don't keep piling more eggs up under the broody hen, so I block the entrance with 100yen store mesh.. BUT, I have to remember to open it up again in the evening so the chick and MomHen can get in there to sleep. Luckily I noticed their confusion enough to remember last night.. Mangle can't move around much anymore so it's important not to forget to carry her into the big night cage with all the others. I think our problem with the feral cat that came to eat a chick or two a day got started that way. I forgot to move a Mangle Hen to safey one night, and the feral cat came and ate her, developing a taste for Silky...

The hen with the chick looks very judgmental. They can seem to have very tough, strict expressions..
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