Photo op with Lenny and Ming Ming

[Orphy]

I was out in the coop with the chickens, spending time with my new little baby chicks that came in about a month ago. When all of a sudden Lenny and Ming Ming (two babies my broody buff hatched in Oct) jumped up onto my shoulders! So I had to take a picture of them!

Right after I took this pic Lenny (the roo) got ahold of my diamond earing and pulled it out! In a panic I tried to hurry and get it away from him, I was so afraid that he would swallow it and I would have to dig through chicken poop for the next week!

So here I am, Lenny on my shoulder and me trying to get the earing out of his beak, when he drops it on the ground!
I am really in a panic now, I have all 8 of my hens running towards us now trying to figure out what the fuss is about and if treats are involved. Everyone is pecking at the ground trying to see what I am looking for, while I am trying to keep a 2 foot radius around where I think the earring might have fell.

What a sight! Finally I see it in the dirt! Whew, what a day...

Life lesson #32794:
Do not wear fancy jewelry when playing with chickens.

 

[specklesmom]

The earring would probably have been nicely polished after a trip through a gizzard!! Organic diamond cleaning!

 

[RhodeIslandRedFan]

So glad you found your earring before they did - it's amazing what things catch their eye. And they're so fast when they're determined to catch something...

 

[Darlasmum]

Ha ha- I lost a pearl this same way. Now have had my backs converted to screw-ons!

 

[GwenReaper]

I know what you mean about them going after everything. My boyfriend and his son were in the back yard playing w airsoft guns.. they shoot little plastic bbs. well I guess I saw them shoot over the chicken coop then i saw all the chickens run to one corner. So I had to make sure they didnt play too close to them or I would see little green and glow in the dark bbs in there poop!!!

 

[bockbock2008]

Ahh. Someone else who has to suffer through the wonder pets

 

[Serrin]

I don't think that's ever going to be a problem for me. I don't even own a pair of earrings!

I'm too old and frumpy for such finery! You know that old saying....Ya can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Yeah, that's me!