I should be updating my blog a lot these days, because I have fewer obligations – but I seem to be filling my time with other on-grid things. I need to remedy that. But this time, I’ll again share a guest post from new notes that I found scratched in my chicken coop:
Day 437
I won’t lie. I’m glad the chicks are gone. They were really annoying, and sometimes they’d try to eat their own food. I’m bigger, so of course I should have first dibs on anything they would want to eat or drink. Anyhow, they disappeared – one by one. I’d go to my perch for the night, and I’d wake up with one less annoying cheep cheep rattling between my ears. Eventually, there was only one, and Farmer thought it would be a good idea to put it in here with us.
We showed Farmer who’s boss. We’ll never tell him what really happened to it.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 440
RooTwo disappeared last night. No notes, no calls. I think he was the father of all those chicks, so either he was afraid of everyone finding out how much of a deadbeat dad he was, or maybe he went out looking for them. Either way, more food for me. He wasn’t nearly as nice as Roo was. RooThree has some really cute tailfeathers.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Hmmm….
Day 452
Farmer put a big perch out in front of our coop today. At first he was riding around on it, cutting up all of the green stuff growing in our playground, but then it stopped tossing the green stuff around. I don’t know why he does that to begin with – the green stuff tastes better without cutting it. And every time he cuts it, it’s harder to find bugs. Farmer is really selfish.
He stopped it, and kept reaching under it. He was really insistent on trying to get something underneath, even with big metal sticks – maybe there was a big worm under it or something? Eventually, he sat back down on it, but it never made the loud noise that it used to make. He covered it up with a HUGE blanket that doesn’t let water through. I checked it out, underneath the blanket – it’s pretty comfortable.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Lawn mower still won’t run. Don’t tell my dad – he would be ashamed of me.
Day 457
I love the new perch! I always try to sleep there, but for some reason, Farmer comes out every night with a glowing stick and grabs me. He puts me back in the coop. I don’t think he understands that I WANT to sleep on the new perch. I’ve made it my own – I’ve been laying eggs there, and pooping in it a bit just to show that it’s mine.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 464
Farmer keeps dumping big buckets of food right by our coop. Well, I say food, but I mean old crusty, soggy food. But – it’s still food! There’s so much I don’t even have to worry about sharing!
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
In retrospect, I think I was just attracting other animals with these scraps…
Day 482
RooTwo was definitely the father of all those chicks. RooThree has been here by himself, and we’ve been sitting on eggs for a LONG time. None of them are hatching. In fact, after we’ve laid on them longer than we needed to, Farmer took them out and threw them in a bag. Some of them exploded when they fell into the bag and smelled TERRIBLE!
Looks like RooThree is not very good at his job.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
It smelled like it looks
Day 485
RooThree is strutting around like he’s the cock of the walk, but none of us really eggspect him to pick up where RooTwo left off anymore. He used to have some gorgeous tail feathers, but it seems like he loses one a day. Is premature tail baldness a thing?
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 490
I don’t like where this is going. RooThree is gone. Is everyone being invited to some bawking party without telling me?
I’m in charge now, and even Farmer can’t change that.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
The new head chicken (Peepnelopeep) was aggressive with me, but they’d all stay by my side – even staying near the window when they could see me inside!
Day 493
Ummm… Bruuke, one of the other girls, disappeared yesterday. Not sure what happened – we all left the coop for our daily buffet when Farmer opened the door. I didn’t see her last night, and when we woke up today we found that she never came home.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 496
Things are getting weird. The hairy white one is gone. It’s definitely not a party, because SHE wouldn’t have been invited before me and Henrietta. Honestly – nobody liked her. None of us even knew her name. I’d be glad that she’s gone, except that I’m not sure what’s happening.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 499
It’s down to me and Henrietta… The other girl, Rebeaka, was acting paranoid yesterday, but I didn’t think anything of it. Kept saying “they’re coming back” and “I just know it’s my turn.” I don’t know what that means, but apparently she knew.
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep
Day 505
Farmer doesn’t open the door anymore. We just sit here and scratch tic-tac-talon into the ground. Henrietta is always scratches and I’m always eggs. I want to be scratches. Why won’t Farmer let us out?
Clucks and Scratches,
Peepnelopeep