The first day Part-3 stealing is wrong

In an finial hike back to his car the man in the hat, finds his parka and gear dry, when returning to his cabin. He steals a free ranging chickens from one the houses along the highway. With radiation sickness setting in and nausea becoming stronger. He decides not to eat the hen, hoping at the least it may lay an egg or keep him company in this situation he now has no way out of.