Birds of a feather | Chicken checkup

[Onyxdreams]

~ ☼ It had been a good while since Onyx had gotten her pets, since the day she had accidentally hatched those eggs and ended up with far more than she had bargained for. Weeks and weeks had passed by, and they had grown, oh man had they grown, going from such little things to being as tall as she was, in fact, Benedict was already taller than her by a bit! Taking care of them had been much harder than she had expected it to be too, cleaning up after them, preventing them from getting into things they shouldn't have, stopping them from eating her things...or ripping them apart. It was much rougher than she had been expecting, at least until she had gotten used to it all and gotten it put into her routine. Then, just like that, they were no longer so reliant on her.

It was a little sad, when they stopped following her around all the time, when they started to venture out on their own more and more often. At the same time however, it made her so proud, to see her little trio growing up, getting bigger and bigger, especially when they had finally grown feathers! Until that point, they had really been so fluffy and cute, but it was kind of nice to see them grow all their feathers in after weeks of waiting for that moment. She may have raised them originally in the hopes of getting free eggs out of them, but....she cared for them, she really did, she loved her little feathery trio, even if they had grown more independent. Was...was this what it felt like, to be a parent? This had to be what it felt like, to be so proud of something that she had raised herself....ok, so she had some help from Winter, but most of that was her!

What did concern her a bit though was that she had yet to get any eggs, out of any of her trio. Granted, she had been told that Benedict was a boy a good while back, but that still left both Shelly and Yolko, and neither of them had yet! They didn't fly either, and she had been a bit bothered by that for a while as well, but apparently these 'chickens' just...didn't fly, which seemed really, really strange, they had wings and feathers and just...couldn't. Sat out in a nice open patch of beach, the hybrid held one of her hens in her wings, doing her best to gently inspect the bird for any issues. "Ow! Shelly calm down, I'm just making sure you're ok!" Onyx called out as the brown hen pecked at her paw, it may have been a bit deserved, with how she had been turning the bird this way and that to try and see if there was anything wrong with her. Shelly looked ok to her, so did Yolko, but what if there was something deeper, like something internal that she couldn't see and that was why they hadn't laid eggs yet. Aghhh, she knew next to nothing about chickens or what could be going wrong here, and it was as frustrating as it was worrying, how was she supposed to know if something was wrong if she couldn't see it?!