![]() ![]() This was my first serious observation of animal behavior. ![]() She had no idea that I had been crouched all that time in the henhouse. My mother was just about to call the police. I tumbled out, stiff but excited, and ran all the way to the house. With loud, pleased clucks, the chicken shook her feathers, moved the egg with her beak, then proudly strutted her way out of the henhouse. I had actually watched the laying of an egg. ![]() Suddenly she gave a little wiggle and - plop! - it landed on the straw. I saw a round white object gradually protruding from the feathers between her legs. She was facing away from me and bending forward. Presently, very slowly, she raised herself from the straw. She was about five feet away from me, on the far side of the chicken house, and she had no idea I was there. But I could see the bird on her nest of straw. It was very stuffy and hot where I crouched, and the straw tickled my legs. ![]()
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