Chickens don't care that much about random schedules, their schedules are tight, they don't like excuses! Not letting them free range when the dogs are in and we are gone is for their protection, but they will hear none of this! I found myself apologizing for my late arrival from a doctors appointment, it was a low point. Pressing themselves against the door with one stink eye on me I flung that door open and they were at a dead run! Knowing I would be at a dead run in an hour I was counting on a timely roost!Apparently there is a little give in the schedule when they get out late! My save tonight was a simple flour tortilla. The girls were on the hill when I walked out the back door and they spotted me. I held that tortilla out there like a flag of hope, hope of a new dining pleasure! As I jogged down the hill waving the tortilla flag Ten chickens ran as if training for a marathon! I figure really you have to be only 1% smarter than a chicken to win! I was 1% smarter tonight!
Cue dramatic music. Scene: On the top of a hilly knoll, a single warrior, clad in the wrought fanaticism of her king, waves a tortilla flag. The clucking of a thousand chicken ensues. Peace is restored to the kingdom once again.
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