SUSAN:
Well, it's been quite some time since I posted anything, but I truly haven't had any eventful experiences until last night. I came home from work and Nigel suggested that I put the girls to bed. I was still wearing my clothes from work, but I thought that would be okay because putting the girls to bed has been pretty easy & uneventful lately.
I was wrong.
When I entered the coop I heard one of my girls (hens) cry out and then I saw her .... an Australorp had fallen off of the roost and somehow had her middle toe caught in the plastic chicken wire. She was dangling from the wire with her head/body going down the ramp (AKA "down-spout") of the coop! I thought that she had broken her leg!! I quickly rushed to her side and cradled her in my arms so that I could remove her middle toe from the wire. This took quite some time. I had to get in a good position, putting my nice work pants on the floor of the coop. After about 10 minutes I thought, well, surely Nigel will come looking for me soon. Then after about 15 minutes I thought, I'm going to have to bite this plastic wire with my teeth, because I cannot get her toe out. After about 20 minutes, I'm about as mad at Nigel as I was when he went out for a boys night and I was crawling in chicken poop (see earlier post).
Finally, I was able to slowly and very carefully release her toe from the plastic chicken wire. Luckily, her leg is not broken, and she just returned back to eating.
Nigel, on the other hand ....
Embellished, tainted with slurs & misinformation! The real question is.... why did it take 25-30 mins for Susan (hen super-hero) to figure out a way to wiggle the hen's toe free??? I mean how hard can that be????????????? Did I mention... embellishment, tainted with slurs & misinformation!
ReplyDeleteBut what about the pants!?!
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