This made me cry. You are a special lady Blanche.A CHICKEN STORY
Princess Chicken has her own “coop” in her own run inside the big run.
I originally made it for the younger chicks to integrate them into my original flock of four.
I was going to remove it, but all the chickens enjoyed running through it.
Then Princess had her injury (her crippled leg which twists out). The other chickens picked on her, stole food from her, several would gang up on her (my three red girls), and she couldn’t compete, so I put her in that small coop and run. She is sort of with the flock but yet she’s not. She has her own food, water, grit, oyster shell, and straw, and a small log.
Well, there is a small space where the ceiling wire is gaping from the hardwire wall, and Blanche has figured out how to get inside through this space.
I started finding her in there at some point every day. I usually take her out. But I noticed she likes Princess and she is nice to her. So I let her “visit” a bit.
She has started laying her eggs in a nest she hollowed out in the straw. (I keep straw in there because Princess has to nest, she can’t roost with one leg.)
So now every day I find two eggs in there, each in the mom’s personal nest.
Tonight I went out to close up the coop. I got out there later than usual so it was already dark, and this is what I found...
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