Hi you guys, just have to tell you about bedtime out here last night. I have, 3 little bitty barns out here in an open windy feild. one is my little hen house with a small run. My chooks free range most of the year, but in winter I keep the pen door closed.
I have 1( lame on one side) 10 year old duck who is "miss boss" and thinks she is a chicken. ( she won't even swim in a pool, though she will wade to bathe. )
I have a 3 year old Isa brown hen, and 7 EE hens, and an EE roo that are about 8 months old. My cousin who hatched them for me thinks all her chickens are "Araucanas"
OK, Any how..I have been letting them out since its been a lot less snow and lock them back up at night.
But the wind yesterday, must have caught the pen door and slammed it shut while we were gone. We went out last night to shut the pen door and feed the goats and found out the chickens were all out, all over place in the dark. And it was rainning like a cow peeing on a flat rock! Pardon my Japanese. And there is "Miss Boss" standing there giving my DH the what for, about being locked out.
Some were in the goat barns and the rest were out in the dark in the weeds and we had to round them all up. I am night blind as a bat and my flashlight batteries were dying. (Bet this is a good time to resurface my argument I keep having with DH about getting a big light out there. heh. heh.)
Took us over an hour to get them all in, a couple of gals were being very unwilling to go. It was quite the night. needless to say I left them in today and gave them all warm fresh bedding, and some scratch and scraps with breakfast today. A couple of them still looked a bit wet this morning.
I had thought about giving my roo to the neighbor gal as I don't usually keep roo's, but he was trying so hard last night to call the gals into the coop that I may just keep him. I have never had a rooster I could turn my back on before, but so far so good with him. Maybe he will be the first.
Oh well, thats it, just thought I'd share. Its never boring around here, thats for sure.
