Chickens on the Loose in the 'Dale

First it was a wild turkey blocking traffic on the Post Road, now we found a clutch of chickens on River Road. Late Sunday afternoon, as we drove down River Road on the way to the Bronx River Parkway, we spotted not one, two, or three but five chickens crossing the road, including three beautiful roosters with bright red combs. They climbed up an embankment to the front lawn of a home where they munched on the grass. They looked too fat, healthy and well-groomed to have survived a winter in the wild and appeared to be domesticated, not wild chickens. Had they flown the coop or do they live in the woods of the Bronx River Reservation across the street?

Police later reported that these chickens were the "temporary pets" of some children on River Road. They were able to secure them after police let them know that their pets were on the loose.