Monday, July 29, 2013

Chicken Bedtime

In the evening between 7:30 and 8:00, the four chickens start glancing at the round door into the coop.  They continue to scratch and peck.  They continue to eat and drink and even squawk now and then.  But over and over again they will look towards to the coop door.  Like children, they seem to know it is bedtime, but want to avoid it.  Then instinct takes over.  The sky is darkening and they can't see so well.  That's when they drag their weary birdbrain selves up the little ladder towards the coop door.  Sometimes they will go up and down the little ladder a few times before entering the coop.  Finally, they will enter their nighttime abode and jump up to their roosts.  Fitz and Bill on the top and Lou and Bruiser on the bottom. 

Fitz is still standing on two feet fluffing up her wings.  The others are hunkered down on the roost ready to start counting sheep.  Or whatever chickens count.  Worms?   

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