Our new old hen, Rita
This is Rita, the most recent addition to Chez GBirds. She’s an older Welsummer hen, and was given to us in trade for our surprise rooster, Dinner. Whether Dinner is indeed taking over for a soon-to-be-retired rooster (the story the nice lady at the chicken farm told us), or if he became cozy with a pot of dumplings, we don’t know. But realistically, either career path is a reasonable one for a chicken. Rita, however, has the luck of living out her golden years in our yard, grazing on clover and bugs, and generally lording her chronological seniority over our somewhat pissed-off pullet, Lunch. Not sure what that zip-tie band on Rita’s leg indicates, but I suspect it means she’s not laying eggs like she used to (we sure haven’t seen any!) and was considered a fine candidate for a Sunday-dinner-seeking customer. Josh wants Rita to keep wearing it to remind her of what could have been. I want her to pop out a few eggs to prove that eggs don’t just magically emerge from the grocer’s cooler, or she might be dinner after all.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Ben // Oct 5, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Cluck ol’ Hen!
2 Ben // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:40 am
My ol’ Hen Is a Good Old Hen, She Lays Egg for the railroad men,
Sometimes One
Sometimes Two
Sometimes enough for the whole hella crew.
3 Iris // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:51 am
Maybe in her younger days. Now she’s more like this:
Cluck ol’ hen cluck and sing
You ain’t laid an egg since late last spring
Cluck ol’ hen cluck and call
You ain’t laid an egg since late last fall
4 JT // Oct 6, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Here a cluck, there a cluck
Everywhere a cluck cluck
Hey! Macarena.
5 Mary // Oct 13, 2008 at 11:09 am
Rita’s a HOTTIE.
6 Iris // Oct 13, 2008 at 11:13 am
Haha! It’s her come-hither look combined with the older-hen allure. Spring chickens just cannot compete with that.
7 JT // Oct 16, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Desperate Hutch Hens
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