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I don't really think she does this for the birds benefit, either. The defining moment for me was late summer--I use to view her as a friend, and would ask if she needed any chickens (back before she had seven hundred) when I went to a show or swap. She told me some sad story about the raccoon who had been taking her birds all summer, having eaten her olive egger. I felt bad, so at the swap I went to in the summer, when I saw a man with a point of lay olive egger, I bought it for her. The seller had originally wanted to sell this girl as a pair with a cockerel, I talked him out of it, took the pullet, and brought it to my neighbor. Beautiful and really sweet chicken that I quite liked.For us, it's clear to see it as a case of neglect, but it's crazy what people can convince themselves of sometimes.
....She texted me three days later to tell me quote "the olive egger disappeared, must of been eaten, she never bothered to sleep with the other chickens in the coop, was pretty antisocial and slept outside." So instead of just taking this chicken like a normal human and putting her in the coop bc it was new and scared for a few days, she let her get eaten.