Midlander – I feel this dream is a wonderful reflection of your observations of your chickens used as a way of seeing something about yourself. You know that people are like chickens in some ways – they have a pecking order, and if you are a contender you have to fight back or stand back. Or like chimpanzees, one of them can decide to become a monk and live and isolated life.
So I wonder whether in the back of your mind you were in fact reflecting on these things – and that was why you saw the white hen. White usually depicts the highest impulse in you, and it wanted to be part of the crowd knowing what it would face.
Memories – those were the days when I could walk up the garden and feed the chickens and watch them. My mother had a cockerel with them and one day it went for her. She picked up a stout Brussels sprout stalk, pecked clean, and gave the cockerel such whack he lay there stunned for a moment. No more attacks!! I am back in Wales now, and my garden is barely big enough for me, so no chickens.
Tony