This is Big Mama. She showed up at our nursery last summer. She found her way to the house where I feed wild birds. I got her some chicken scratch and treats like meal worms. She had been living on her own at the far end of the property for quite some time, so she was pretty skittish. It took me a few weeks to get her to stay within a couple feet of me. I fell in love. She started laying the most beautiful light brown eggs almost daily. Eventually she started hanging around me when I was working outside. Then a rooster from the neighbors chicken yard started visiting her every day. They hung out all day together, eating and napping. Then he would go home at night. One day he stopped visiting and a couple of days after that Big Mama left and joined him with the neighbors flock. We had started building a coop and run and planned on getting two or three more hens. Even though Big Mama has left us we are going ahead with our plans for a very small flock.