I may have stolen a chicken today!
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I live in a rural area and several of my neighbors also have chickens. I have five sapphire gems and 9 ISA browns. As I was coming home from the store, I saw one of the browns about 40 yards from the coop (they free range and sometimes get a little adventurous). I stopped the car, got out and picked up the hen and took her back to the coop. A few things seemed off with her. First, she was pretty hefty; second, she let me pick her up easily (mine aren’t super tame); and third, she rode in the car like a champ. At bedtime, I got everything closed up and all the girls into the coop and did my nightly headcount. Instead of 14 hens, I had 15! I double and triple checked and for sure, I have an extra hen. I suspect the girl by the bridge that I snagged belongs to one of my neighbors. Now that she’s mixed in with my ISA browns, I can’t tell which one she is and I have no idea which of my neighbors may be missing her. Maybe tomorrow morning when I turn them out, she’ll head back up the road to her real home.
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