Chook Drama

Hello! Midweek and the first day of autumn!! And it was the nicest day of summer ever! Go figure!

Margie dropped in today to say hello. She brought her little dog Macca, but left him in the car with the windows a little open as she wasn’t staying long.

Well… as we walked back to her car we could hear a dog barking – but not from the car! From down in the back yard. Yipes! The little snot had wriggled his way out of the car window and somehow through the fence to the back and found 11 new feathery playmates!

By the time I got into the yard, there was no sign of 10 of the birds. Just one black girl that had hunkered down, kinda comatose. I think she was trying to pretend that she wasn’t there as Macca bounced around her in delight barking at his new playmate!

It took a while, but I coaxed Macca to me and deposited him back over the fence to Margie who was looking all kinds of mortified!! (To be honest I am just glad he went looking for the chickens and not straight out our gate to the highway!!)

I went back to the chook who seemed paralysed picked her up, tipped her over and checked her out – no damage. I popped her in the coop area and ruffled her up a bit to snap her out of her frozen state!! She came to and wandered off! (chook brains!!!)

Still not another chicken in sight. It was like the aliens had been and beamed them up!!
Finally they started appearing from out of bushes and behind the big macrocarpa trees.
So hard to count them… I could only come up with 9.

It took ages – there are a lot of black chickens and they move about a lot so it was a bit of a challenge. I finally found Squeezy Chook buried in the raspberry patch. That was 10.

I didn’t think there was that many hiding places! It took me about 20 minutes to find the missing girl!
She was squashed down between the compost and vegetable garden fence and kinda nested in some of my plastic sheeting. Wasn’t moving a muscle – or feather! I had to pick her up and reanimate her as well! Then gave her a bit of bread which made things all better.

This set of photos made me laugh – I took them some bread this afternoon as a treat to make up for their fright. I had the camera sitting above the bread down at ‘chook level’ and was taking random photos without looking what I was doing! Chicken Faces are the best!

Cheers!