How did your flock annoy you today?

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This is my new favorite thread.

I’ve made a list of my day…

1- chase Nugget off the deck. Clean the giant cecal poop strategically placed in front of doggy door. NICE TRY, NUGGET!

2- inventory all birds after a suspected hawk fly over/attack. Missing the 4 freshly weaned, highly vulnerable chicks, have a mini freak out. Find chicks hiding (trapped?) in shed with closed door. No clue how they got in there.

3- respond to another rooster alert, but it’s just Lenore, who every day after laying her egg races back to the flock screaming bloody murder “ya’ll are NOT gonna believe what just happened to me in there!”

4- Chase Ellis out of garden.

4- bathe Beastie because she got into the fly trap while I was changing it out and got gross dead fly/poop water/who knows what else spilled on her.

5- scrub egg from nest box floor because someone moved the mat over 1” and that’s where the broken egg ended up.

6- remove Gabriel from roosting on the run pop door so other chickens can come and go (8 hen pile up at the door- so much complaining).

6- Chase Ellis back into the yard.

7- rescue pullets from behind the fence where they get trapped at least twice a day.

That’s just so far… the day is still young.
 
This is my new favorite thread.

I’ve made a list of my day…

1- chase Nugget off the deck. Clean the giant cecal poop strategically placed in front of doggy door. NICE TRY, NUGGET!

2- inventory all birds after a suspected hawk fly over/attack. Missing the 4 freshly weaned, highly vulnerable chicks, have a mini freak out. Find chicks hiding (trapped?) in shed with closed door. No clue how they got in there.

3- respond to another rooster alert, but it’s just Lenore, who every day after laying her egg races back to the flock screaming bloody murder “ya’ll are NOT gonna believe what just happened to me in there!”

4- Chase Ellis out of garden.

4- bathe Beastie because she got into the fly trap while I was changing it out and got gross dead fly/poop water/who knows what else spilled on her.

5- scrub egg from nest box floor because someone moved the mat over 1” and that’s where the broken egg ended up.

6- remove Gabriel from roosting on the run pop door so other chickens can come and go (8 hen pile up at the door- so much complaining).

6- Chase Ellis back into the yard.

7- rescue pullets from behind the fence where they get trapped at least twice a day.

That’s just so far… the day is still young.
I am dying laughing at these! It also makes me happy that my chicks are not quite 2 weeks old and are still too small cute to annoy me yet. 😆 I did go to my neighbor's real quick yesterday afternoon, and she had just raked leaves and old coop straw into a big pile. When we walked into the shed to get what I went to borrow, her ladies went to town in that nice pile of raked straw and leaves, thoroughly kicking it about. As I left, one pecked my foot, for good measure?
 
What a fun thread! Makes you wonder why we all keep chickens. 😂 For the love of course!

All of your flock stories will have me giggling the rest of the day. :gig

Don't you just love your Styrofoam eaters?! :barnie

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After saying mine are still too small and cute to annoy me, I went to check on the little darlings. Found them happily walking on top of the overturned waterer, bedding a soggy mess.

I just put them in the new playpen brooder yesterday, so of course it was all new bedding. They now have clean, dry bedding and fresh water.

I check on them about twice an hour during the day, so they worked quickly. Such is life. 😆
 
I heard the Hawk call and look up. There is a hawk in the dead tree that we need to finish bringing down, but it's to hot so that's not happening for a bit. Anyway this flock has no brain cells. That hawk is watching them and they don't even look up at his calls just go about their business. He left when he saw me and then came back. Same thing! Maybe 2 looked around but that's it. So I had to camp outside with my coffee for a few hours because my family's idea of helping does not in fact help.
 
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