Hens are funny!

Category: Farm Doings | Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:45 pm

Bear with me, this is the first time I've written a blog. In fact, until recently I thought blogs were a gardening shoe!
As some of you know from my postings, we have six Australorp hens, complete with names and personalities (but no teeth). Yesterday I was giving Rosie her weekly physical exam by running my hands over her body and talking gently to her. I found a lump on her chest! I tucked her under my arm and started frantically searching for the growth. What I found was a piece of breakfast linguini that had gotten stuck in her feathers and dried out. Hens are very messy eaters. I had to pull two feathers to remove her food residue, which did not make Rosie happy!
As I was working with Rosie, Stumpy decided to go walk-about. She managed to get through the coop door and into the barn aisle. I dumped Rosie, minus a few feathers, and went after Stumpy, who refused to re-enter the coop. Finally I went out of the barn, got some Swiss chard from the garden, and started feeding them treats in the outside coop. Stumpy set up a ruckus because she couldn't get at the goodies! I went back in, opened the coop door, and Stumpy shot inside to join the rest of the flock.
And all this before 7:30 a.m.!

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eileen wrote on Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:30 am:

I enjoyed reading your first blog entry so much!! I hope you'll continue to give us little snippets of what's happening with your Australorp ladies as this one certainly made me smile..