Otter teaches Greenie to swim, and later enlists the help from a local bat and an owl to help a then-teenaged Greenie learn how to fly. Leafie raises Greenie and watches him grow up. Leafie tearfully accepts him as her son and names him Greenie, and together they head to the glade where Wanderer asked. Leafie witnesses the battle and Wanderer is killed by One-Eye, leaving Leafie completely heartbroken.Īfter Wanderer's death, the egg hatches into a duckling that imprints on Leafie, thinking that the hen is his mother. That night One-Eye returns, and Wanderer engages her in a fight to the death. Wanderer instructs Leafie to take his unborn child to the everglades, telling her she will understand why in time before he leaves her to find the weasel. Wanderer decides to let Leafie look after the egg for a few days, meaning to exact revenge on One-Eye and ensure their protection. However, that very night, One-Eye attacks and Wanderer's mate tragically dies.Īfter hearing the commotion, Leafie enters the nest and finds a single egg.

The now wild hen meets Wanderer again, and discovers he has a mate. Otter, who has heard about Leafie and helps her find a place to live on Wanderer's behalf. With nowhere else to go, Leafie leaves the Farm and arrives in the wild, where she meets Mr. Leafie returns to the Farm to join the group of farm animals who reside outside the egg farm in the yard, but the animals there aren't fond of her and she gets into an argument with the barnyard rooster who refuses to allow her into his flock, insisting that her place is to simply spend her life laying eggs. Her life is saved through the intervention of Wanderer who saves her by trapping the weasel in the farmer's wheelbarrow but then leaves without a word, not even giving Leafie his name when she asks. After the farmer leaves, Leafie slowly wakes up, but then she hears someone warning her to wake up and she finds herself confronted and threatened by a one-eyed weasel known as One-Eye. Dreaming of having her own young, she devises an escape plan she faints, causing the farmer to think her dead and to take her from the cage to dump with other dead hens. She dreams of being a mother, however she can't incubate her own eggs.

Leafie lives on a chicken farm with many other egg-laying hens that are in battery cages.

The hen who dreamed