Saturday, February 5, 2011

All cooped up


"Let me out! Let me out!" (translation of "bruckkkkakkkaakka").  "We've been cooped up in this toasty warm chicken house for four days.  Let me out!" they insist repeatedly.  I try to rationalize with them.  "Girls, we've had 18 inches of snow.  Where do you think you'll go?"

"Bruckkkakkaaka!"

So I shovelled a path from their coop to the driveway so that they could stretch their legs, strut their stuff, and flap their wings.  "Cockadoodledooooo!"  PrettyBoy announces.  I think that's "thank you" in rooster language.

Today's Journey Joy: Adventurous chickens
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