9 days away from our Pink concert. I think I am going to hire Maddy next door to take care of the chickens. We will be gone all day as it is in Louisville which is a almost 5 hour drive. I will not bother dad about them. The 11th also happens to be opening day of gun season for deer, his Christmas. I hope he is too busy dragging something off the hill to worry about them. The coop will need to be opened and everyone let out and the feeder filled up. Then she will have to come let Poppet out of her tote with fresh food and water. Around 5 she will need to put Poppet back in her tote for the evening and block it off and open up the coop so the rest can come to roost. Around dark she will then need to do a sweep and carry any of Ravens group who insist on roosting on the porch to the coop. There is still 3 that like special treatment of being packed to bed and close it up. She will also need to gather eggs. Besides myself and Rosie, Maddy is the only one who knows where everyone sleeps and where all the nests are and can handle all of them without any fuss. Raven is also broody and wrongly thinks she is going to be allowed to hatch again. She has taken over her old porch nest box so she is also being packed to the coop at night to her displeasure. I hope by then I have her broody butt broke but if not, Maddy is not afraid of Raven. She packed her to the coop for me last night when I was locking everything up. She is afraid of 1 hen only, Momma.
