It is not definitively known how they came to be there, although news stories generally ascribe them to an overturned poultry truck.
[2] When she became too frail to feed them, a young actress, Jodie Mann, with Actors and Others for Animals made arrangements to relocate the chickens.
[5] Nearly a hundred of the hens and roosters were relocated to a ranch in Simi Valley, California.
[8] Beginning in the 1980s, twenty years after the colony's arrival, various individuals started coming forward claiming to know the mystery of their origin.
A driver on the way to work in Glendale was proceeding south on the 5 Freeway when she spotted three cars off to the side of the road that had been involved in a multiple rear-end collision.