Keeping Chickens Newsletter

Hi Gina!

I have to tell you how much I enjoy the newsletter! I have learned so much about raising chickens and have also discovered that there are so many others just like me who are just as 'chicken crazy' as I am!

I wanted to tell you all about the strange incident that happened at my house two years ago and the how and why of my family becoming chicken lovers! So...in most incidences, people have a stray dog or cat that shows up at their home. Not us. Of all things, a stray chicken showed up a year ago last March! I'm not kidding you. We live in the country and there isn't even a home close by that is raising chickens so this little girl must have gone on a long trek through the woods to reach us. My husband and I weren't home and our daughter called us on the cell to let us know there was a chicken in the yard. We laughed and said sure thing. Turns out she was right! We think the chicken may have been around our yard for a while simply because our yellow lab hunting dog and our little Pomeranian just walked around the yard with it as if they were all great buds. Neither dog ever ruffled a feather on that bird. This chicken had decided to take up residence in the garage and we discovered she was subsisting on the deer feed, corn and oats. (We feed a herd of deer in the winter.) Now, my hubby is pretty laid back, but he and that chicken went round and round (of course, my daughter and I wouldn't let him kill it!) Every time the garage door was open, the chicken made a beeline for a rafter where no one could get to her.

"Lucy"