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They are all so adorable! I have had a change of the friendly guard myself recently. Last spring one of our silkies decided she needed to be a mommy and before I knew it she had 2 eggs developing. One was a chicken and one was a duck. Well, as you could imagine since duck eggs take longer than chicken we ran into a problem. Once the chick hatched she lost interest in the duck egg, thinking it was defective. It hatched but did not make it sadly. We did end up with a chick though and as only children can sometimes be she was a handful. Lilly decided that she was a dog, NOT a chicken. She had no interest in sleeping in the coop, no interest in hanging with any of the flock, no interest in being outside at all. So we let her have her way. She slept in a dog crate and she had free reign to go where ever she wanted. Finally we started to transition her to being outside, putting her in a pen with other females who had been low on the pecking order and needed a space to themselves. Everyday Lilly would jump the fence, walk around the house and knock on the door. My husband would let her in, she would go to her crate and lay her egg then loudly demand to be taken back out into the pen with the others. Lilly soon began to forget about our hugs and cuddles, she no longer wanted to come inside and sleep in her crate. So Lilly has now decided that she is in fact a chicken and lives with her lady friends in the small pen. She is still friendly but not interested in hanging with me anymore. But I guess that is how things goes and she is where she belongs, lol.
