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Crowing
Your Most Royal Highness Aurora,
Please excuse the sheer effrontery of my dumb Hooman in approaching you directly earlier. Like everyone who is fortunate enough to behold your glory, we both admire your magnificent muffs and pristine gold and whiteness. By contrast, I am but a drab, dark speckled and spangled Sussex, suspected of wrongdoing at all times.
I am meekly asking for some advice for my poor ignorant Hooman. My world is ruled by an evil queen, who has not learned to rule with your wise benevolence. She used to sit on top of my golden friend occasionally and peck her head (doesn't seem to do that anymore). She attacks everyone all along the best roost bar (at the back), when she chooses, but we all know that's within acceptable levels of chicken violence. I always sleep on the poop shelf for this reason, unless Dumb Hooman puts me on the roost bar herself.
What Dumb Hooman is wondering about: the other day Hooman sat on the floor of the run and subjected me to a most ridiculous butt cleaning. Evil Queen marched over and even though Hooman told her not to, she pecked me hard on the head. I knew that nothing good would come of having my butt cleaned, but did Dumb Hooman listen? Nooooo!
Also, last year, Evil Queen led an attack on her own second in charge that she was raised with, a weird little Polish, just because she sat in the nest box for a month on everyone else's eggs. When she came back to the coop, she must have tried to sit on the back roost bar (remember I have to sit on the ground, so I don't know) because the Evil Queen and some vicious friends attacked the Polish most seriously. It ended with the Polish living in a dog crate, then getting her own run and coop.
Ignorant Hooman is wondering - was the mean peck on my head normal jealousy because everyone knows Hooman gives me special treats? (No one is nice to me.) Or is this over the top rudeness?
Please forgive our intrusion on your valuable time ruling the international chicken world. Any wisdom you care to impart would be appreciated.
Your loyal subject from afar.
Louisa
Please excuse the sheer effrontery of my dumb Hooman in approaching you directly earlier. Like everyone who is fortunate enough to behold your glory, we both admire your magnificent muffs and pristine gold and whiteness. By contrast, I am but a drab, dark speckled and spangled Sussex, suspected of wrongdoing at all times.
I am meekly asking for some advice for my poor ignorant Hooman. My world is ruled by an evil queen, who has not learned to rule with your wise benevolence. She used to sit on top of my golden friend occasionally and peck her head (doesn't seem to do that anymore). She attacks everyone all along the best roost bar (at the back), when she chooses, but we all know that's within acceptable levels of chicken violence. I always sleep on the poop shelf for this reason, unless Dumb Hooman puts me on the roost bar herself.
What Dumb Hooman is wondering about: the other day Hooman sat on the floor of the run and subjected me to a most ridiculous butt cleaning. Evil Queen marched over and even though Hooman told her not to, she pecked me hard on the head. I knew that nothing good would come of having my butt cleaned, but did Dumb Hooman listen? Nooooo!
Also, last year, Evil Queen led an attack on her own second in charge that she was raised with, a weird little Polish, just because she sat in the nest box for a month on everyone else's eggs. When she came back to the coop, she must have tried to sit on the back roost bar (remember I have to sit on the ground, so I don't know) because the Evil Queen and some vicious friends attacked the Polish most seriously. It ended with the Polish living in a dog crate, then getting her own run and coop.
Ignorant Hooman is wondering - was the mean peck on my head normal jealousy because everyone knows Hooman gives me special treats? (No one is nice to me.) Or is this over the top rudeness?
Please forgive our intrusion on your valuable time ruling the international chicken world. Any wisdom you care to impart would be appreciated.
Your loyal subject from afar.
Louisa
