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Beloved UWS Chicken: Lady Sybil Found In Garden After Laying Eggs
After nearly 48-hours of panic, Lady Sybil was found in her UWS community garden home with a smile-inducing surprise.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The saga of Lady Sybil the chicken has an ending worth clucking about. Volunteers at the Columbia Secondary School community garden on the Upper West Side put out a call last week that the beloved hen was missing.
Posters were disseminated in the neighborhood, calls went out on social media, and volunteers from the garden at Amsterdam and West 118th Street patrolled the surrounding streets looking for any sign of the hen.
Almost 48-hours after Lady Sybil was last seen, she was found hiding within the community garden itself with one major surprise.
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Lady Sybil laid eggs!
"Someone just found her with lots of eggs," Jan Sirimanapong, a garden volunteer, told Patch. "They fed her and she seemed okay."
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Hens are known to lay their eggs in hidden locations to keep themselves from being harassed by predators or other hens.
No doubt the other chickens Mrs. Patmore, Big Fluff, and Penguino at the volunteer-run chicken coop within the UWS community garden were relieved that Lady Sybil is alright.
For those who might not know, Mrs. Patmore and Lady Sybil are named after characters in the hit TV show Downton Abbey.
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