donkey herder, fowl friendNinja (a copper Maran) is the unquestioned Head Hen of the flock. She’s a wee bit smaller than butterball Zelda, but Ninja has ten times the force of personality. Do you want to hear what she just made me do??
I’d fed all the critters, every single one, and I was drinking my morning @funranium BBotE iced coffee. Ninja started trumpeting for me from the porch, and I tried to ignore her. But after a few minutes, she was still there, yelling. I went outside and there she was, with only a nervous Presley for company. Everyone else was grazing in the garden.
I asked her what the hell she wanted. Had the ravens been messing with her? Maybe the rat trap went off and startled her while she was trying to lay the egg? I started walking to the barn and Ninja came with me, still complaining. We slowly walked to the barn (no new rat yet today) and I gradually realized why she was mad. Ninja likes to lay in a seed spreader, and when I unloaded the truck yesterday I stacked the feed bags beside her chosen nest *in a different way.* She was lodging a complaint with management.
🤦
I moved some tarps out of her way and added an overturned bucket as a step. She circled the area, complained for a while longer, and finally ignored my bucket to scramble up in the nest on her own. The nest itself still met with her approval and I left her there to lay the egg.
#chickens
I’d fed all the critters, every single one, and I was drinking my morning @funranium BBotE iced coffee. Ninja started trumpeting for me from the porch, and I tried to ignore her. But after a few minutes, she was still there, yelling. I went outside and there she was, with only a nervous Presley for company. Everyone else was grazing in the garden.
I asked her what the hell she wanted. Had the ravens been messing with her? Maybe the rat trap went off and startled her while she was trying to lay the egg? I started walking to the barn and Ninja came with me, still complaining. We slowly walked to the barn (no new rat yet today) and I gradually realized why she was mad. Ninja likes to lay in a seed spreader, and when I unloaded the truck yesterday I stacked the feed bags beside her chosen nest *in a different way.* She was lodging a complaint with management.
🤦
I moved some tarps out of her way and added an overturned bucket as a step. She circled the area, complained for a while longer, and finally ignored my bucket to scramble up in the nest on her own. The nest itself still met with her approval and I left her there to lay the egg.
#chickens
Sand Hill Thicket