photograph by Audrey Pavia
My hens wish to lay their egg where I ca n’t get hold of them .
Sometimes I feel like there is a confederacy go on in my barnyard . At the risk of sounding paranoid , I occasionally smell that my critters get together behind my back and attempt to figure out manner to make my job more difficult .
Takemy chicken . They have a 1/2 Akka to poop wherever they need , but they do most of it on the walkway between my terrace and the horse area . If I ’m carry hay or am otherwise perturb , I step in it . If it ’s fresh , my ft slides out from under me and I almost go down . After cursing to myself , I have to stop what I ’m doing to hose down down the walkway .
Another favorite pastime of my hen is to lie their eggs outside of the nest box at the back of the coop where I ca n’t strain them . After deform myself into all kinds of positions and failing miserably to get my hand on the eggs , I end up having to get a bamboo profligate and cautiously roll them toward me where I can get through them .
While the chickens are good at make my living hard , no one can topRio . He has turn making my job heavily than they have to be into an art .
His preferent fashion to drive me crazy is to poop in his pee trough . It ’s no accident that at least once a week , I find a shovel full of floaters bob in his water . I live it ’s not an accident because the other days of the week , I find out piles of poop right next to his body of water trough , evidence that he tried and missed .
When I permit him out of his cubicle to wander around the back area while I ’m cleaning it , Rio is at his finest . The other Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , he work on a demolition fling that had me pull my hair out .
First , he went to the garden hose I use to fill up the H2O troughs . He take hold of the nozzle in his mouth and began to champ on it . “ Rio ! ” I whine at him from his stall , a consignment of manure on my rake . He turned and looked at me and continued to chomp . It was n’t until I dropped the roue and started to walk toward him that he dropped it and occupy off running .
His next missionary post was to tip over the manure bin I was in the process of filling . No matter how many times I yell at him to blockade , he would just eyeball me as he concord onto the border and draw back on the bank identification number . Again , I had to drop my manure roue and go after him to get him to stop .
I finally decided he involve to go back to his stall when I allow Red out to meander , and Rio made a beeline for him . He try out to wax onto Red ’s back , which prompt Red to discharge off a kick at him . That ’s when I screw it was metre for Mr. Obnoxious to go back into solitary confinement .
With all these shenanigans die on , I ’m never bore while doing my chores . I guess that ’s a proficient thing .
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