Aimee laid her 3rd egg today. Still nothing from Penny or Carly, but Carly is training me to take her off the outside bar and carry her inside nightly. She simply refuses to go inside with everyone else, so I slide the pop door closed from the inside storage area, go back out, around the pen, into the pen, pluck her gently off the bar and cuddle her while she chatters away in her teeny tiny voice, walk around back inside and deposit her inside the coop. She now realizes that she must simply wait, no matter how much I coax, shake the scratch can, call her name, tap on the window, etc. Eventually, Mom will come carry Her Royal Highness into the coop like Cleopatra on her barge. She's hardly bigger than a wild bird, but apparently has a larger brain than some of her coop-mates.
Oh, Rusty has decided he will be my friend...IF I have a handful of cornbread crumbs to offer him. He very carefully picks every one off my fingers, nary a nip or threatening gesture from him.
Oh, Rusty has decided he will be my friend...IF I have a handful of cornbread crumbs to offer him. He very carefully picks every one off my fingers, nary a nip or threatening gesture from him.
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