Story game

[earlybird10842]

The chickens waited nervously in the coop. The dog was fiddling with the run door, trying to open it so he could get out. Thankfully, from the position where he was stuck, he couldn't reach the closed pop door, or else the chickens would have been doomed if he had been able to open it.

 

[little farmer]

The chickens heard footsteps. Then they heard shouting 'YOU DUMB DOG ALWAYS ESCAPING THE HOUSE!!!' The owner of the dog pulled the dog out from the door and took it home with it whimpering in shame. "Yes!! He's gone everyone!!" Declared Elliot. "Phew, that was a close one." said Pumpkin. The chickens all hopped out the pop door and into the run. They were safe.

 

[earlybird10842]

At the break of dawn, Tiger slipped out into the quiet run. This morning, he had gotten up eaarly so he could crow. He inflated his lungs and tried as hard as he could to crow. It sounded like a chick screaming. He sighed. He wasn't old enough to crow. He watched as Elliot strutted down the ramp and crowed magestically, waking Big-person and all the hens.

"morning, Mabel!" called Pumpkin. "good morning" responded Mabel, pouring herself some scratch and adding oyster shell. The morning routine had changed considerably since the flocks had been intigrated. Instead of four hens having a quiet conversation over breakfast, The day started when Elliot crowed. Breakfast was a noisy, crowded affair, with eight hens at the outside feeders, and eight at the inside ones.

 

[earlybird10842]

That meant the hens had to take turns at the feeder spots, since there was only room for four at each feeder.

 

[earlybird10842]

As the pecking order twisted about, the two roosters decided a good way to organize the pecking order would be to have two "catagories": the bantams, and the "large fowl." That way, each rooster would have his own seperate domain, which would hopefully keep them from fighting. The head hens of the Large fowl were Pumpkin and Jujube, and their rooster was Elliot. The head hen of the bantams was Tiara-Tutu, and the bantam rooster was Tiger. There were two schools of thought on this new arrangement: Some said it would be disasterous, others thought it would be the ultimate solotion to all the pecking order problems. Mabel didn't have any opinion on it. She decided to watch and see. One of the first noticible results of this new arrangement was...

 

[AraucanaAnnie]

...a sort of isolation between the 2 "groups". Sure, they spoke sometimes, but it was never really conversation. Nonetheless, Tiger was very pleased. He considered Tiara Tutu to be "his" now, and didn't like her talking to anyone else...

 

[earlybird10842]

Thanks annie! I thought this was dead.
Except the other bantam pullets. There hadn't been much friendship between bantams and the standard birds anyway, so no friends were seperated.

 

[AraucanaAnnie]

I don't want it to die!
Pumpkin and Jujube were becoming closer every day. As head hens, they had lots of self esteem, and this sometimes made the other, lower ranked hens feel less important. But they were kind, even to the bantams...

 

[earlybird10842]

Eva to the very lowest ranking bantam.

 

[Chicken Tamer]

Pumpkin dicided to explore outside the fence one day...