Lois - The Wild Ones

The Wild Ones

Created on Monday, 22. May 2006.

My first real contact came when one of the wild red hens showed up with 12 chicks. We thought they were really cute, then they started to disappear. One night she had 5 chicks and a possom came and attacked her. He got one of the chicks and did some damage to her too. She was so frightened, I was able to put a box over her, slide a board underneith and transport her and the chicks to a pen. After a two week confinment, she would take the chicks out during the day and bring them back to the safety of the pen at night. One of the chicks eventually killed one of the others, and Ma returned to the wild, but the three surviving chicks come back every night to sleep in our chicken pens.
One morning while my mother was visiting, she asked me what was that "white thing in the yard with all the little white things around it". Another wild chicken with 13 chicks. We made the mistake of only confining her for a couple of days. She took the chicks back to the wild and now there is only one survivor, which I carefully pen up every night. I believe he/she? is lonely because I found him sleeping on top of one of the other chickens last night who was sitting on eggs. The mama to be looked pretty squashed, but otherwise didn't seem to mind.
Then.... not finished yet... another brown Mama with 13 chicks showed up. Her babies at this time are about two weeks old and will be confined to the pen for a few more days before she is allowed out during the day.

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