It's a week later and I continue to hold the view that I made the right choice in attempting an adoption once the hatch had failed. I would move heaven and earth for Mary. She is such a wonderful hen.
I found answering people online mostly exhausting and time-consuming, and by far the worst part of the process. Especially when it descended into insulting and offensive territory, like when advice comes in the format of instruction or exhortation (and it was always to superciliously inform me to do something I was already doing), or when my character came under discussion. So many egregious assumptions were made. I'm not made of time.
So I won't be sharing the next hatch in a public format. It'll be trusted old friends who already know something of the hens' environment and back story, not to mention my own character. People who know the context so thoroughly, they have no cause for assumptions. People who spread more cheer than presumption or assumption.
