After a month or two of disoriented wobbling around, and avoiding the roost to spend the night somewhere out in the open, the Gray Hen has mysteriously but almost completely returned to her former self.

She is doing in the roost at night, staying with the other hens again, and getting out of the way when we walk up to her.

In other words, she’s behaving like a chicken. She might have been broody, though I don’t think so, and she was never sitting on any eggs that we saw,  or she might have just been sick. My guess is the latter.

In any case, it’s probably just as well that I didn’t shoot her.

She seems back to her old self, and with the shorter days, the hens have stopped laying and we are going to put the blue light inside the roost again to fool them into thinking the days are long.

Maria is fond of the chickens, but I personally don’t see the point of having them around if they aren’t laying eggs.