Chicken update: Eenie has finally left the nest on her own after
the crushing realization that her invisible egg will never hatch. For a couple of months she has made ungraceful attempts to
free range but her crazy ass behavior has been a bit off-putting to say the
least. She drops with great force from her nesting box, begins to cackle as if
she is being snatched up by a predator then makes a drunken low fly up the hill
to the first mole hill where she will scratch madly until she remembers….. THE
INVISABLE EGG!!! Distressed that it may be cooling off she lifts her head looks
directly at the coop, begins a top volume cackle and runs at breakneck speed,
wings out back to the coop where her invisible egg waits patiently.
Apparently I have been more companionate with her than the flock;
I have carried her all the way up the hill hoping to save her the embarrassment
but the girls have noticed and have been keeping notes! Sadly there is an initiation process involved
when one wishes to leave the nest behind and reenter the said flock; Eenie has
only one tail feather left with the remainder in the corner of the coop. She
has been defrocked and excepted back, it’s a ruthless process but strangely
forgiving.
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