Miss Henny Penny hiding under the blue spruce. I always forget just how old she is but it is well over 6 years probably more like 8 or 9. Of the hundred plus chickens that we have had, she is the only one to survive the coyotes, foxes and neighbors dogs. She and her coop mates used to hop up our outside stairs (1 1/2 flights) to the 2nd floor porch, walk to the edge and jump off. They were the funniest site flapping wildly while plummeting to the ground. Surprisingly, every once in a while she will pop out an egg, a very elongated one.

We first got our hens for their eggs and soon found that we didn't have a problem with Japanese beetles. Which caused the skunks to move away because there wasn't any grubs to feed on. Of course, that might be just a coincident.