Chicken round up

For the last two nights, the boys and I have been in charge of "putting the chicken's to bed.)  That basically means, rounding them up from our yard and getting them in the coop.  You also have to shut the front coop door or the lovely coons will eat all the chicken feed.

It typically takes J about 15 minutes to round up the chicken.  The first night, it took us an hour.  By the time we were down, I was sweaty and my ankles were all scratched up from trying to scare the chickens out of the brush where they like to hide.  There were a few near miss ankle sprains as I was trying to do this in my work clogs :)  Pick-Pick was pretty useless.  JJ was helpful, but I think a good herding dog would have been better!  Either way, 60 minutes later, we had all 28 chickens safely in the coop.

The second night went better.  We had them all rounded up in about 45 minutes.  This time, JJ did most of the running around and I stood near the coop door to entice them in.  Pick-Pick, who was vacuuming the grass with his new pretend vacuum cleaner, was again pretty useless :)  We found all but one white giant.  30 minutes later, I saw from my kitchen window, the white giant standing outside the coop.  I went out to the coop, quietly opened the door, and he walked right in!

Farmer J is on chicken duty tonight, thank goodness!