Well, if you eat it, it's likely to be a chicken and if it's laying eggs it's a hen.
Ah, hens: clever, clean, fun-loving, freedom-loving (thank you Hugh F-W and your Chicken Out campaign:http://ciwf.cmail2.com/t/y/l/kuljdr/krlkeihk/r ) sociable, inventive, adventurous...[I could go on]
I often find myself 'tailing' hens, detective-like, and I often lose them! But, this morning I had a stroke of luck and watched a secretive fowl boldly enter a lengthy tunnel between rows of big bales of straw. Whether I shall be able to retrieve any eggs without moving twenty bales is another question...
It fascinates me how frequently hens change their laying place. Are they trying to hide their eggs or do they just take a shine to a new hidey-hole? Sometimes several hens use/share the same nest_not simultaneously, though there is at times, a queue. Sometimes our flock of five has five nests on the go.
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Thank you very very very much for your insight and comments on the ordinary happenings on the farm to which "conventional" farmers are blind
How true
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