Originally Posted by
Ausfree
Driving my bus last night, (about 6pm) I stopped at the layover spot at Fletcher, which is reasonably isolated with bush surrounding it, there are houses about 200 metres away.:)
I hopped out of the bus and spotted this cardboard box, laying on its side, it was about 1 metre square and looked like it hadn't been there long. At first I took no notice and as I had ten minutes before I did the return trip to the University, I decided to have a look inside it.:)
Could you imagine my surprise when I looked in and peering back at me was a live CHOOK, fully grown and orange in colour, it gave a little braaack, braaack.:o:o:o
I thought, what am I going to do, I can't leave the poor thing to die and I can't take it with me on the bus. So I rang Mrs Aus. and asked her to come and get it, we live only ten minutes away.:)
I had to leave, but she managed to find it and took it home, and gave it something to eat and a drink of water, she said it just drank and drank.
My eldest daughter, who lives at Belmont keeps chooks (the ornamental type) and she also looks after stray injured and sick birds for a local wilderness society,so Mrs Aus took it over there. The daughter had a spare cage, so she put the chook in there to keep an eye on it to make sure it is OK. She also wanted to isolate it from her own chooks for a while in case of disease.:)
The bottom of the box was taped up with blue "Duc" tape and had Kennard written all over it, so the only thing we can think of, that somebody was moving house and the poor chook, has fallen off a ute or something.
Lucky it was where it was because if had of fallen anywhere else, nobody would have looked.:)
