A few weeks ago one of the chickens disappeared. No sign of feathers or anything. A couple weeks ago we got rid of our last rooster because he kept chasing people. Sometime between last night and today another chicken went missing (thanks to the son not propping the coop door open and the birds all getting locked out at night, during a storm until I found them after 10PM.
So I went looking. I was determined to find evidence of where this one went. I finally saw something, and from a distance she looked like a bloated dead bird. I thought maybe she got hit by a car and this was her body on the side of the road, wet from the storms that keep coming through.
I was scared to even touch her, well really I was grossed out. I was scared she'd be cold and dead and gross. But her eyes were open, not blinking, for a solid two minutes and I thought a bird wouldn't die with it's eyes open, would it? I finally reached down and poked her and she turned and started attacking my hand. So I reached down with both hands to pick her up.
These were all of the eggs under her! I handed her off to the boy and gathered the eggs. She'd been sitting on these eggs through the storms! All but two were warm, although I'm not sure if any are fertile since we got rid of the rooster. She was not happy but we moved everything into the coop. They're all the same color so I suspect she's been laying in this spot, by the road for awhile now and then decided, during the storms, it was time to sit and become a mom.
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