Things have been pretty busy in our house over the last few weeks. With my father-in-law having health issues, we have had to take on a little more work with the lambs but still waiting for the last few ewes to get bred. Hogs and chickens are doing well.
Timeout for a Chicken Story....
Not sure where I left off with our chickens but we had a litte mishap a few weeks ago involving our dog and our chickens. I went out to let the chickens graze, as I usually do, telling Bo (the dog) to stay at the house and leave them alone, as he usually does. I walk back inside to work and I hear a terrible noise coming from outside. I look out the windows and see chickens scattering everywhere from all sides of the house. I ran outside to find chickens across the road, in the fields, in the garage, and none in the hen house. I caught the ones across the road and continued to carry them back to the house when I see Bo has cornered a hen inside the garage. Blood. Everywhere. AUGGHH!
I corral what chickens I could find and put Bo on the leash to keep him sane. Jordan came home and helped get the remaining chickens out of the field and back in the coop. Then we head back to the garage to deal with this doggy of ours. I was FURIOUS! Come to find out, the blood was not from the chickens, it was from the dog. Somehow he had sliced the pad of his foot and thats what was bleeding. Jordan took care of Bo and everything was good to go...but those darn chickens (and DOG) had us scattered for awhile! Everyone is back on their roost and laying as usual so the story ends well.
In the meantime, Jordan got rid of a rooster but the other one on the chopping block retreated to the corn field and wasn't seen again-----for a few weeks. He had come and gone and after finding him a mile away from the house, hearing him early in the morning in the fields, and a crazy article in the local newspaper about a man who found a stray rooster in the next town over (luckily not ours)....I came to the hen house with a pleasant surprise. I went to shut the hens in for the night and who was in the door way....that renegade rooster crows RIGHT at me as if to say....."Hahahaha made it back here you sucker!"
He is still around....for now.
