- Dec 15, 2008
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On Friday night at about 10:30, I heard a noise that I at first thought was the feral cats bickering. A few seconds later I realized it was a chicken!
"Honey, there's a very upset chicken out there!" I told my husband.
"Ours are in, and I counted them," he said. When I insisted, he gave me the "you're nuts" look and wearily got up and put on his boots to go check on the coop.
I went out to the front door. A few moments later he stuck his head outside and before he could say anything I said "Like I said, a CHICKEN!" Poor thing looked pathetic, it was raining so it was all wet and muddy and half-asleep.
We put it in our oversizse cat carrier and put it in the coop.
I got some pictures of it today, they aren't the best possible because it's terribly skittish and doesn't like us to get close, although it seems very happy to go out when our chickens go out, and although it can't yet find the coop itself, it has already recognized the carrier as "home" and will go to that readily enough.
We are pretty sure it's young because it can get some serious air when it flaps its wings--last night before we brought out the carrier, the silly thing was trying to fly into the kitchen window. That in turn makes me think it was kept in a lit coop or maybe a garage or even a house--today was in the fifites, and it was tucking one foot into its feathers like it was a little cold.
I am guessing that it's a leghorn rooster that was someone's Easter chick that they got tired of taking care of. What do you guys think?
"Honey, there's a very upset chicken out there!" I told my husband.
"Ours are in, and I counted them," he said. When I insisted, he gave me the "you're nuts" look and wearily got up and put on his boots to go check on the coop.
I went out to the front door. A few moments later he stuck his head outside and before he could say anything I said "Like I said, a CHICKEN!" Poor thing looked pathetic, it was raining so it was all wet and muddy and half-asleep.
We put it in our oversizse cat carrier and put it in the coop.
I got some pictures of it today, they aren't the best possible because it's terribly skittish and doesn't like us to get close, although it seems very happy to go out when our chickens go out, and although it can't yet find the coop itself, it has already recognized the carrier as "home" and will go to that readily enough.
We are pretty sure it's young because it can get some serious air when it flaps its wings--last night before we brought out the carrier, the silly thing was trying to fly into the kitchen window. That in turn makes me think it was kept in a lit coop or maybe a garage or even a house--today was in the fifites, and it was tucking one foot into its feathers like it was a little cold.
I am guessing that it's a leghorn rooster that was someone's Easter chick that they got tired of taking care of. What do you guys think?
