Picking Favorites

Out of all the chicks we hatched over the summer (I use "we" loosely, as we did not sit on any eggs, leaving that chore to the mother hens), Susannah had two favorites, whom she named Joy and Mirth.

This is Joy.

Here she is riding in the feed bucket out to the coop.

Joy disappeared a couple of weeks later. I told Susannah that she just left to take her rightful throne as queen of the forest. She's probably even more spoiled there....
Hey, it could be true!