Nugget

While Colin and I were back up in Richmond swimming his short course championship meet, Brent was dealing with this:

Remember Nugget, the chick we hatched?  Well Nugget loved Pam's house.  They would send us pictures of Nugget in the pool on a float with them.  Nugget loved people.  But then sometime in August Nugget went missing.  A latch wasn't shut, and Nugget and another chick left the coop.  Never to be found again. So, we thought.  I sort of thought that something had happened to Nugget, and they just didn't want to tell Norah.  So August - February no Nugget.  

Then Jeff sends a picture of this silky rooster that shows back up and its Nugget! Still as sweet as ever.  But Pam can't have roosters and the rooster rescue wont take silkies.  So Brent went to get Nugget and take Nugget back to Whitney's house (the original owner of the eggs) She had just gotten rid of a lot of her roosters but said if Nugget was still sweet then she would take him back and see if he would like the farm this time, when he was a baby he was abandoned and left outside.

I was pretty sure we would come home from Richmond and Brent would have this rooster in my house. 

She was thrilled to have Nugget back. She was upset when they other chickens pecked at Nugget.  But thats where the pecking order comes from. Whiney said to give it a few days and see what happens.  

He really is a beautiful rooster.

Update on Nugget is that he is perfectly happy at the farm.  He started sitting on the back of one of their pigs. Getting a real piggy back ride. And now the other roosters do it too. Whiney hasn't see anything like it before. 

Nugget really is his own childrens book just waiting to be written. 

 Norah keeps begging to hatch more eggs.  I told her a year later and we are still dealing with the chick we hatched.  Most people hatch and send them off to the farm and are done.