Chicken Kisses

Up close and personal.

I find chicken personalities endlessly fascinating.

Sofia, my only adopted hen (neighbors were down to one girl after multiple predator raids and thought she needed a flock) is the queen of the outliers.  She is one odd bird.  No one picks on her, but on the other hand, she does not have a chicken BFF.  Doink is her best friend.  She still sleeps next to him, even though Louise continues to make it a threesome.

Sofia is INTENSE.  I can feel when she’s behind me, and in the barnyard she is often close to me.  She never hangs out with the other chickens.  I think if she was human she would walk around with kinda squinty eyes and a knotted brow.  She would probably always dress in black.  You would feel slightly uncomfortable if she stared at you.

So I found it odd when I saw Sofia getting up close and personal with Cindy Lou, the hen who frankly has no positive personality traits whatsoever.  Cindy Lou is bossy and unfriendly.  She is a mean girl and I believe her chicken cup is always half empty.

Yet Cindy Lou stood totally still and accepted Sofia’s “kisses”.  (Yeah, I know, they’re not kisses.  But play along with me, ok?)  I’ve seen it happen a few times now.

You don’t mind me being this close, do you?

Well then, how about this?

I’m gonna put one right on the ol’ kisser, ok?

Come on, can I get a smile?  No?  Well, I know you liked it, even if you’re too tough to admit it. 

And so it goes.  Chicken kisses in the barnyard.  It’s just a little thing that happened in the middle of a somewhat unremarkable day.  Just a little thing to make that day…a little sweeter.

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