The Hen They Found After the Fire

In 2012, a wildfire swept through the foothills outside Colorado Springs, consuming over 340 homes in the Waldo Canyon blaze. When a rancher returned to survey the charred remains of his property, he found one of his hens lying dead in the yard, her feathers burned away, her body stiff and blackened. But when he gently lifted her, three living chicks scrambled out from beneath her wings.…