CHAPTER 4 - Subtitled- Roo gets in Biiiiiiiiiig Trouble
I think the story needs a map, just so readers can understand. Little chickens live in the shed. Big girls(Ladies) are in the coop. Map is not to scale. My yard is 1 acre. RH neighbors have about 3/4 acre each. LH1 and 2 make up a half-acre, and LH3 is the older couple neighbors and their acre.
You wouldn't think it, but chickens like the weekend too. Having the humans home is a nice break in routine, and this particular weekend, the humans were working on getting the new coop and run done. It MIGHT have gotten a bit further along than it did if the humanlady would have worked and not kept chasing chickens.
The biggest little rooster was really getting somewhere with the Ladies. He followed humanlady to the Ladies pen, and happily greeted them as they were freed. He made sure they were all all right, and then took them to the older couples yard.
When the older couple heard the humans were getting chickens, they both requested a rooster. The biggest little rooster knew this, so he stood at the bottom of their deck stairs and crowed as loudly as he could. Four times. He was a tad disappointed because no one came out and gave him treats. He gave their cat the evil eye. The Ladies were impressed that he'd be willing to stand up to a wild animal. Even if he was bigger than the cat, it WAS a wild animal.
All day, the Ladies followed the biggest little rooster around the yards. He was getting so much attention, he was strutting proud.
Later in the afternoon, humanguy got out the big noisy red toy. Even the littlest chickens know what that big red toy means- fresh grass clippings!!!!!! The littlest chickens followed the big red toy around, but the biggest little rooster kept his ladies away until it was safe. Then he scratched up the little clumps so his ladies didnt have to do any work.
The sun fell out of the sky, and the biggest little rooster was sad. He really hated this time of day. But he couldn't let the ladies see his sadness. He wouldn't want them to think he was depressing. So he walked his ladies home, and got his little flock to bed.
Sunday morning was a lot of the same. The biggest little rooster felt he was the luckiest guy in the whole world. He had not one, but FOUR beautiful ladies who seemed to love him. Well, two seemed to love him, one just liked him, and the fourth hadn't been convinced he was worthy yet.
Maybe it was all the attention that went to his head. Or maybe he just wanted to show the ladies more of the world. Chickens in love do unexplainable things.
The biggest little rooster was lost!!!! He crowed for help. With all the traffic on the road, humanlady didn't hear the far away crow. Luckily, the medium little rooster did, and he crowed back " Hey Where are you".
The biggest little rooster crowed back " Over Here!! How do I get back"
The medium little rooster responded, " Follow my voice".
The biggest little rooster was slightly embarrassed. He didn't want the ladies to think he was bad with directions. Especially since he was trying to get them to be impressed with his sense of adventure and travel. So he didn't follow the medium little roosters voice.
As they were yelling back and forth to each other, the humanlady had gone to the yard behind, and was walking thru very tall scratchy grass to try to find him. After cutting through a hole in the fence, and ducking thrashing tree branches and sticky bushes, she went through the right hand neighbors yard, around his bushes and into the right-hand neighbor 2's yard. After brushing spiderwebs off her legs, she looked up and what did she see? One biggest little rooster and 4 ladies.
The biggest little rooster heard the humanlady calling him, and he went running. He was pretending to be very obedient, but in fact he was so glad to be rescued without looking bad to his ladies.
All that traveling and exploring wore them all out. The biggest little rooster led the ladies into the bushes to take a dustbath and a nap. But no napping for the rooster. He had to stand guard, because you never know when a wild animal will appear
To be continued after nap time: