Buddy; The Wonder Chicken

EEek! Sorry forgot. I'll just skim over the rest.

Buddy had been broody. Now she had some chicks. Of course the first thing she did was take them out of the pen. And the first thing she met was.... Harvey, the dog.
Let me just say, Harvey never ate, touched, or licked another chicken again... 😬

Now Buddy is about 7ish years old and she recently just knocked a whole side of our sturdy chicken pen. 🤦‍♀️ That we had just fixed.
Gotta love Buddy!
 
Chapter Three

"Can't catch me, Alf Alfa!" Buddy yelled as they raced around Clara and Izzy's front yard, the baby chicks were now a month and a half old and the big human mum said that they were nearly big enough to go out with the big chickens. Izzy and Clara had gathered all 18 chicks in their arms and squealed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
The human mum had then relented and ran inside laughing, "Okay! Okay!"

Anyway, Buddy and her best friend Alf Alfa- who was also grey- were playing tips and racing each other around the humans' front yard as the sun set.
Soon Izzy and Clara would be running round trying to catch them.

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That night Buddy and Alf Alfa snuggled together in one corner of the porta cot that they slept in and all the other chicks were in the middle of the cot.
Buddy and Alf Alfa fell asleep instantly, they were exhausted after playing all day.

But they were awoken in the night by a low growl coming from outside the porta cot. A fox ripped through the cot and tore into the nearest baby chick, then the fox moved on to the next and the next until all the babies had been consumed. Then it turned tail and fled.

The next morning Clara and Izzy ran outside happily to see the chicks. "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Clara and Izzy were petrified by the scene before them, blood and feathers and legs and wings and eyes and heads. Izzy and Clara bounded through the mess and peered into the cot, "Izzy! Buddy and Alf Alfa! They're in here! Alive!" Indeed Buddy and Alf Alfa were the only chicks left!
We had something happen just like this, but instead of a fox it was our own dogs and cats!!! We only had two that were still alive and they were ducks.
 
Just some more updates.

Our mental chicken Buddy has been getting herself into the strangest places.

She somehow got trapped under the water bucket and this morning she was stuck inside the dog food bag 🤷‍♀️

She has also had bumble foot and some sort of crop issue for a few months. But she’s ok now.

And that’s the story 😜 caught up
 

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