Hardy wasn't sure he liked all the changes that happened in such a short amount of time. He was happy to be in with the big girls. They had much more room to run in the bigger pen. That did present a problem though- the big girls ran from him. At first, they were quite happy to have him around. He tried to be a good rooster. The big girls didn't seem to want to be loved, though. Hardy didn't know what to do. He wished his dad was around to teach him how to be a great rooster.
One morning, he woke, and there was something strange in the pen.
Hardy tried to keep the big girls away from it. He didn't know what it was, or whether it posed a threat or not. The big girls ignored him. They wanted to see if the neighbors had treats. They did not mind being near the thing. But Hardy was still quite wary.
Every day, the thing was there. It ate their food and drank their water. It sunned itself on the roof of the feeder cover. Hardy stood back and watched when it was near the big girls. He tried to tell the big birls that he was standing guard, ready to attack the thing if it misbehaved. The girls knew better, though. They knew Hardy was a little afraid of the thing. They also knew the thing was a kitty.
When the kitty would chase the girls, they would gather around it like mother hens and lecture it. Hardy never intervened. He claimed it was because the big girls handled it so well. The big girls knew better, though. Hardy was afraid of the kitty.
Just when he started getting used to the kitty being in the pen with them, he woke one morning and found his sisters gone.After chasing the big girls around the run several times, he gave up and went toward the fence to talk to his sisters. They were not there. In their place were some very funny looking little chickens. Some of the chickens had fuzzy feathers on their head. They were so fuzzy, you couldn't even see their eyes.
The other chickens had feathers that curled up. And surprise- one of those fuzzy things was a rooster. He may be a quarter of Hardy's size, but he was still a rooster, and Hardy did NOT like that.
What he disliked even more was not having his sisters to talk to . He knew they were nearby. He could hear Beebee making a fuss. That didn't mean a lot, really- Beebee could be heard miles away. She was quite loud. She was giving Hardy a headache. He couldn't calm her down, because he couldn't see her. Oh, Hardy knew this was NOT going to be a good thing.