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DFO’s Animals: Chicken Fugitive

A black hen is shown Friday Jan. 29, 2010 at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif., that has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it. (Nick Ut / Associated Press)
A black hen is shown Friday Jan. 29, 2010 at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif., that has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it. (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

A black hen is shown Friday at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif., that has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Question: As a child, I was once pecked by a chicken because I was bothering her chicks in the yard of my father's dairy. I remember growing up with a fear of mother hens. Have you ever had a close encounter with a chicken? Or rooster?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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