Jeffery Hen - Takes Care of An Egg

Each and every day it was the same thing...Jeffery Hen would sit in her nest, trying to keep her egg warm. It had to be in the winter time she laid the egg. Every morning Roo would get out and crow; when the roosters came back from their hunt he would just fly out of the tree and get whatever he thinks Jeffery Hen needs to eat and bring it into the hen house. Bear and Roo also went to the watering hole to get water and bring it to her.

Jeffery Hen was awfully anxious about the egg; she would pick it up from time to time trying her best to see if she would hear anything in it. She was hoping she would at least hear something inside of the egg, but for weeks she heard nothing. A neighboring hen come in to see how she was doing and Jeffery Hen asked her when will she hear anything inside of the egg. The hen told her it would be shortly, but the first thing she will hear is the chick's heartbeat. When you start hearing it you know your chick is doing just fine and is healthy.

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Days turned into months and each day Jeffery Hen would sit in her nest and then, finally, she got a surprise, she heard a sound inside her egg. When Roo came into the house with something for her to eat, she told him about the sound. Roo tried to listen but couldn't seem to make out the sound.

The next morning a rooster from the neighborhood was announcing the laying of an egg; Jeffery Hen said to herself, "I'm far ahead of her." Jeffery Hen would sit in her nest and as time went by she noticed at least eight hens in the neighborhood had laid an egg since she has laid hers. She also noticed about five hens had chicks to hatch out of an egg. She was hoping that hers would be next; but only time will tell.

As she sat in her nest she was wondering when Vicki Hen's eggs were going to hatch; she would really would like to go and see them hatch out. When Roo and Bear came in for the night, she told Roo that whenever Vicki Hen's husband announces the hatching of her twins, she would like to go and watch.

Roo said, "If its possible, but it will have to be on a warm day; cause I don't know how to keep the egg warm for you."

Jeffery Hen said, "Surely you can find something we can put over it just to keep it warm that long."

Roo when outside and found some corn shucks and laid them beside her nest. He said, "These should do for just that little dab of time you will spend away from the nest."

Posted by Aunt Meaner