I could bottle up about a million of those annoying Japanese Beetle, Lady Bugs, whatchamaycallems that we have around here and send them to you. They LOVE aphids. Only good thing about the little monsters. They battle to get in to hybernate in the fall and battle to get out this time of the year. We had about 25 of them crawling around on our bathroom window yesterday. My solution? Got out the shop vac and sucked the little beggers up. Of course now the exhaust from the shop vac smells like beetles.....
Went out tonight between storms to gather eggs. Found one of my little under two pound hens sitting on a single egg. Went to secure said egg and the sweet, tiny, beautiful little lady turned into a screeching, pecking, biting monster. I was yelling OUCH! STOP IT! until the little darling grabbed ahold of my hoody sleeve and started shaking it like a dog. I cracked up at that. It's just hard to take a tiny velociraptor seriously.
I finally secured the egg, thinking all the while that I was glad she wasn't
@superchemicalgirl's renowned attack turkey. My big girls don't bite that hard when they are protesting me swiping their eggs. DH asked me what I was going to do if she decided to REALLY go broody and my response was, as fierce she was protecting that single egg, if she wants to hatch eggs, I value my skin enough to let her! She'll be a fierce mother hen.