So yesterday at lunchtime, I head to the coop. I (as well as the chickens) enjoy my lunch. I go to fill the water thingy ( *!#* idiotic design...more on that later) and Bashful flies over my head and out the coop. Holy crap! Now what???

I'm only on lunch break...I don't have hours to spare. She didn't go far...thank God!
So I go fetch some crack cocaine for chickens...aka sunflower seeds. I come back and start trying to woo her with the seeds. Yeah...not even paying one iota to the seeds. So...I block off the run from the coop as the others are running around the fence perimeter in the run chasing Bashful...who is running around the perimeter of the run on the out side. I prop open the coop door...take a deep breath and say a little prayer to Sweet Baby Jesus.
At this time Bashful is jumping up on the fence poking her head through the chain link holes trying to get back in. Ugghh... I'm trying to tell her she won't fit...and see, the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence! She's fast...she's a paranoid mess (this was the straggler from the rescue that I couldn't get the first night)...and she won't let anything get near her.
So I approach her from the opposite side in hopes she'll keep working her way down the fence, (still poking her head through the fence) until she gets to the big wide open door....
We got to the corner...just a mere 3 feet from the coop door...and...**swoosh**...up in the air she goes again!

I start the ritual again...as it did sort of work...just have to get her around the corner to see the big wide open hole to go in... The second shot, she FINALLY found the open door.
Ugghhh...these dang chickens are going to be the death of me!
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Now...about those plastic automatic water dispenser thingies....

I'm not an engineer but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express a few times... Why in the name of God's green Earth did they not just put the dang fill hole on the top of the freakin' dispenser????

What purpose...does the fill hole on the bottom serve? Why the need to have to flip the darn thing upside down to fill it????

Oh....and while I'm on a "female dog" fest...why have only an 18" cord????
Needless to say...after soaking myself a couple times...I will be revamping that dang thing to put a fill plug on the top...where it stinkin' belongs!