Inspired by Derrida’s contemplations on the making of Self in relation to Other, this zine is a multimodal mediation on the spatial relationship between myself and five red hens who have come to live with our family in at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, many across North America and Europe had rushed to embrace various homestead-inspired pursuits, including purchasing chicks at the start of lockdown measures, either to seek food security or animal companionship. Having been one of the many, my wish for this zine was to acknowledge and complexify our relationship with the five backyard hens, focusing on the deeply ethical entanglements that stretch through the feathered roaming bodies of layers and the brown shells of their fragile eggs, to people, animals and politics at a father distance.
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