What is more exciting than a dozen chickens in your laundry room? Chickens escaping their cage and running free in your laundry room! Yes, indeed, there is nothing like casually strolling into your laundry room, happily anticipating a fresh, clean batch of laundry to fold and put away and finding a chicken standing in the middle of the room staring at you in her fowl way. Usually, she has also left a few gifts on the floor for you to clean up. Oh joy.
That is what I have been experiencing the last couple of days. The chickens feel they are old enough to fly the coop. So they do. And it was not the birds that I expected to fly first. One was Dottie, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte, who is in the middle of the pack, size-wise. She has always been one of the quieter ones. Guess I need to keep on eye on her from now on! You know what they say about those quiet ones, right?
The other was a big surprise. It was Blackie, one of my "penguin chicks" from the second batch. They aren't even fully feathered. Or that big. But Blackie has always been a bit of a trouble maker so maybe it shouldn't have caught me so off guard.
Time to put them out in the barn.
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