Window on Cherry Pie Lane

This is the new resident in the little chicken house. It stopped raining today, so that I could safely bring my camera outside. I now have all three chicken coops occupied. The little guy had quite a rough beginning. He was a hatchling in my daughter’s kindergarten class, but not a normal hatchling. The janitor took all the eggs out to throw them away after the rest of the chicks had hatched days before. He was hitting each egg with a hammer as he threw them away and one peeped back at him. He quickly got it put back in the incubator minus the shell, but the membrane inside was still intact. By gosh, the little thing hatched but was so weak that the older chicks would have pecked it to death. So it went to my daughter’s house for a few weeks and lived under one of my heat lamps. He/she is now officially moved to Mehmke Farm and Ranch. He is loving all the space to run. When you have a single chicken you need to condition them to become social. We use a mirror and a little furry friend, as you can see in the photo for tomorrow. The little guy sleeps in front of the mirror and talks to it all the time. I was hoping that it would turn out to be a hen, but the comb is looking more like a rooster. What a tough little chicken and a bit strange looking too.

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