The pet I’ll never forget: Brown Hen, the eggless hero who loved us – and outsmarted all her predators
As our flock of chickens dwindled, she truly came into her own, adopting us as her flock and miraculously avoiding death-by-pine-marten Brown Hen was originally one of five chickens that we kept at our home in the Scottish countryside. But chickens do not live long, and over time our flock dwindled until only she was…