Impy does this, I wish Thor would!!

[ranchhand]

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It's reverse psychology.

Got to be all those little voices..... yikes! Wait a sec, I hear my own right now..... it's says Thor is gonna get his derriere boosted by a .....................................



PINKY TOE!

 

[redhen]

Yup.. mine stay out until all the girls are inside.

 

[gryeyes]

Interesting. Carl used to do that, now he calls from within the coop, and the Sebright Roos run in and out, checking in all the girls. And Charlie makes the patrol around the run to hustle dawdlers.

Never really realized how the tasks had been delegated and/or accepted, until now as I considered it.

 

[gritsar]

Oh and heaven help me if I make one of the meaties girls holler. Impy will come running from wherever he is and demand to know what I am doing to his girls.

 

[gryeyes]

This afternoon, when I was doing something unusual (carrying boxes of cheeping chicks from the house to the shed to place 'em into the new brooder), George Sebright attacked my ankles. I couldn't do any thing about it until I got all 33 chicks settled, so I figured it was a freebie.

But the little bastid came at me again after I came out of the shed AND after I scattered and hand-fed some old fashioned oats to the group o' chickens which had gathered.

So I walked him out of his 'tude. Took a good 30 feet of backing him up before he gave up. And then Bernadette C. Marans fluffed up her neck crest and took him down another peg or two! Alex Sebright has the good sense to keep his Rooster Role at merely shadowing me everywhere, just checking what I'm up to.

They're allowed to herd the hens, but not me. Carl knows that very well.

But you gotta chuckle at a little banty roo charging a hefty - if height challenged - flock mistress! He doesn't even reach my kneecap.

 

[gritsar]

Linda, I can't help it. I think banty roosters are a riot when they get 'tudes. I wouldn't think it nearly as funny if Thor decided to get one.

One of my big brahma girls was trying to intimidate my little silkie Jethro the other day. She raised her hackle feathers and was charging him/her. Jethro couldn't see her, so he just went along his merry way. I tried to tell her she was wasting her time.