1. Solitary hen

2. Organic mentality

3. Cats

4. Solar meeting

hen the Solitary Hen was born she had three siblings, or so one might have thought, after all they were all born at the same time and they were all close in size. 

In the beginning the four newborns lived in an enclosure with heat, water and food and it was just the four of them. They had no adults around them as they were being taken care of by humans. But they had each other and soon they began to relate and decide who was who and what was what.

One day a couple weeks later they were carried to the outside world where the door to their cage was left open. At first they were all to frightened to leave the safety of their cage but then the bravest one ran out the door. Then the other three left, one by one. Soon they were all scratching and pecking away. There was water and plenty of great food. 

Flying all around and hanging out high up were grey, or white birds that cooed. The males made strange sounds while bobbing their bodies to impress the females. The strange birds were bigger than the four of them, but not much and some of them were setting on small eggs in nests higher up, but of course the four could not see the eggs from way down on the ground.

All around them was a huge, to them, cage, but they did not know that as they were too small to see it all or know what it was. That night they crowded together, on straw, at the base of a small roost, in the corner. Crowded together they kept warm and so each day came and went and they grew so quickly.

The Solitary Hen was not growing as fast as her siblings but she did not notice, or pay attention, and they all just kept hanging out together. Then one night, when they were all adolescents, the four were carried into a large coop where there were other, larger birds. 

The next morning some of the larger birds pecked at them and chased them wanting to know who they were, where they came from and what were they doing in their coop. Rhey fled, stuck together, and found so much space that they could get away from those nasty birds, found plenty to eat and drink and so, as the days and nights passed, life was mostly good. 

They did not go back to the coop ever again and at first slept together, still huddled up, beneath bushes, or in a corner somewhere away from trouble. They soon discovered the really huge animals that stood on four hoofed feet but as all the other birds seemed not to be concerned with the huge behemoths they also walked around beneath them but every now or then a bird would be accidentally stepped on with serious injury and sometimes it seems that a behemoth would purposely attempt to step on a small bird or even grab their tail feathers and pull them out in one big bite full. But the Solitary Hen and her siblings managed to avoid such a catastrophe and after all when the behemoths ate they dropped tasty hay onto the ground, which all the birds loved to eat.

The group of four never went back to the coop and after awhile, as they grew, the Solitary's siblings took to roosting out in the open on corral metal bars with big, big birds that strangely enough, looked just like her siblings and not hardly like her, but she roosted with her siblings for though she was a chicken, she thought she was a turkey because turkeys were what her siblings were. 

Three years later she is still roosting outside all year, even in the cold, with the turkeys and though she now lays eggs in chicken nests and runs sometimes with the other chickens she is still a solitary chicken that hangs with her siblings, the turkeys.