Bertha Street Chicken Missing

After weeks of regular wake-up calls with the chicken (we called it "Spot") on the fence by the Delaware fire station back lot, Spot has turned up missing. We and the firemen fed the chicken regularly. For a while our neighbor Joe fed the chicken before us. We watched week after week as the chicken flew from yard to yard in search of grubs, worms, and scrap food. We had found the chicken was actually roosting under a table behind our house. It produced a dozen eggs while there but none of them were good. Yesterday the chicken did not come back to its nest and is not there today.


Was it captured by someone? Did it meet with an accident by a dog or vehicle? Did it just decide to seek another home since its eggs were not hatching? We just don't know.


Perhaps a few weeks of free range drama is all that we will be blessed with in this perplexing poutry episode!