Jeffery Hen Wants to Start a Family (Part 2)

Jeffery Hen watches the other hens play merrily in the picking ground with their chicks and the other chickens. In the morning a rooster from the area would get on top of his hen house and announce the laying of his hen's egg. Every time Jeffery Hen hears an announcement wonderment would cross her mind. She sometimes wondered what it would be like if Roo was to announce the laying of her egg.

Jeffery Hen would go and visit each and every hen whose husband announced the laying of their egg. Every time she visits she would say out of curiosity, "How do you get the egg?" Each and every hen would tell her that she would have to make a nest and sit in it.

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Jeffery Hen went back home, she started to gather some straw from the picking ground and wherever she can find something soft to make her nest. She had a hard time finding enough material to make the nest. Each and every day Jeffery Hen would sit in the nest, but each morning when she wakes to the crowing of Roo she would get up and look back at the nest, no egg; a tear would come to her eye.

Outside Jeffery Hen hears the crowing of another rooster announcing the laying of an egg. This would make Jeffery Hen feel even worst. Jeffery Hen would always leave the nest and join Bear at the meal the other hens and roosters are eating outside. When Roo sees his family come out of the hen house, he would fly out of the tree to join them.

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The next day Jeffery Hen woke up to the crowing of Roo. This time she was surprised, she heard the crowing of the same rooster announcing the laying of another egg. Jeffery Hen didn't know what to think.

Jeffery Hen got up out of her nest and she looked back at her nest, no egg! This time she didn't know what to think.

When Roo stopped crowing outside to let everybody know the roosters were back from their hunt, Jeffery Hen went out of the hen house and started toward the hen house of the hen who now has two eggs. Roo saw Jeffery Hen leave the hen house, he flew out of the tree to see what was upsetting her.

"What's the matter Jeffery Hen?" said Roo.

Jeffery Hen said, "I just want to talk to the hen with two eggs."

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Jeffery Hen and Roo both went to visit the lucky couple. They got to see both eggs. The couple was Vicki Hen (Vicki Lynn Coleman) and her husband. The couple said that they will soon be the proud parents of twins!

A tear came into Jeffery Hen's eye, then another one and another, then finally she broke down and wept. Roo said, "Don't cry, dear, you'll be a mother one of these day's, just wait and see."

Jeffery Hen said, "Everybody has chicks but me, even my own husband here has one."

Vicki Hen and her husband wished Jeffery Hen and Roo luck as they when back home.

Posted by Sherry