Former nurse and midwife shares her home with six hens
Gwenne Baile, affectionately known as ‘The Chicken Lady of South Jersey’, holding a hen named Sandie. Baile tends a small flock at her home in New Jersey, the United States. — TNS Gwenne Baile, the mother hen of South Jersey’s thriving backyard chicken scene, knows her flock by more than just their names. “Sandie, extra large brown eggs; Nellie, pale beigey-pink; Susie, baby blue; Emmie, slight greenish-blue; and Lizzie... same as Nellie, ” Baile said, describing the rainbow of egg hues her pets-with-benefits regularly produce. As for Iris, who’s five-and-a-half: “She doesn’...