KnittingChick3
Chirping
- May 19, 2017
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My co-worker saw this chicken wandering around the car wash parking lot in town yesterday morning.
The next morning it was still there, so she called me. My husband and I went to try to catch it. The mayor (because in a small town, you know everyone) said whoever could catch it, could keep it. (I guess it had been causing some trouble with traffic...)
We did the "food in a cage" trap and managed to catch her and brought her home. She's in quarantine right now until she gets used to us and I can give her a bath and make sure she doesn't have anything contagious to my other birds.
We only had her at home about 10 minutes before she laid an egg, so obviously a hen and obviously old enough to lay, but I don't know anything else about her. I believe she's a White Leghorn. She's a little dirty, but otherwise seems in good shape. Small bald patch on rump above tail from either rubbing on something, or getting pecked at, but no clipped beak and toe nails are neat so I don't think she escaped from a battery cage truck (sometimes chicken trucks go through town...)
The next morning it was still there, so she called me. My husband and I went to try to catch it. The mayor (because in a small town, you know everyone) said whoever could catch it, could keep it. (I guess it had been causing some trouble with traffic...)
We did the "food in a cage" trap and managed to catch her and brought her home. She's in quarantine right now until she gets used to us and I can give her a bath and make sure she doesn't have anything contagious to my other birds.
We only had her at home about 10 minutes before she laid an egg, so obviously a hen and obviously old enough to lay, but I don't know anything else about her. I believe she's a White Leghorn. She's a little dirty, but otherwise seems in good shape. Small bald patch on rump above tail from either rubbing on something, or getting pecked at, but no clipped beak and toe nails are neat so I don't think she escaped from a battery cage truck (sometimes chicken trucks go through town...)