Amelia Airhart loves to fly always followed closely by her BFF. Amelia is a big chicken that easily clears a five foot fence. She has a BFF that is missing a lot of feathers on her head because Ameilia is a bossy, pushy headpecker. Her BFF
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ardless of the abuse follows her lead. Monday they jumped the fence together and ate all my baby cabbages. It took me a couple days to catch Amelia, she is very fast and once she lands back in with the flock she looks like several others and I cannot accurately pick her out. But catch her I did and then I clipped her wings. I clipped both because she is one of the hens that roosts in the rafters instead of the perches and I was afraid she might get up there and then spirel down and injure herself, she is a beautiful big bird and I like her in spite of how annoying she is. In the evening I found her on the lowest perch looking quite dejected. I felt very sad, I had taken a wild, free spirited bird and made her like all the rest, what had I done. The next morning shortly after I let the hens out into the big pasture there was the BFF in the garden heading for the broccoli while Amelia gazed at her through the fence. She was easy to catch, she is slow and not my sharpest chicken and easy to pick out because of her red featherless head. In her defense she is one of my best layers. I clipped her wings too. I spent a lovely day with no chickens in the garden and in the evening there they were close together on the bottom perch. I have no more remorse. Animal husbandry requires some tough choices, I chose broccoli.