Funny Chicken Story

This happened earlier this month. We were loading up our chickens to take to a farm to be prepared for the freezer. (Isn't that a nice way to put it.) We got up at 6 am to get them loaded in the crates the family loaned us. If we had been smart we would have gotton up an hour earlier and just picked them up while they were sleeping, but then I wouldn't have a funny story to tell.

Anyway these fat lazy chickens usually just come to the door when you open it, however this morning they were apparently on edge and ran into the outside pen, where we can't get to them. My dh had to remove some chicken wire and get a ladder to climb in the pen and chase them into the chicken house, then climb out and run around and help me load them. In the meantime several of them got to the "real" outside. By now my mom, dad and the children are trying to help chase chickens. We managed to get the "outside" ones back in; all but one. The lone rooster decided to wait for us under the truck. We saved him for last and proceeded to load the rest. We got them all loaded and looked for the lone rooster, but alas he was not under the truck and no where to be found. Could he have gotton back into the chicken house and loaded? Well, that was the only reasonable explanation, so out to the farm we went.

I explained to the lady what had happened and, that we may have 28 or 29 chickens. Then we went home to return at noon to package our birds.

My parents were camping at our place and so we sat by the campfire for a bit before making breakfast, when our daughter said, "Look!" Lo and behold our lone rooster was back underneath the truck. My dh peeked underneath and the axil was full of chicken poo. That crazy rooster road about 12 miles to the farm and back underneath the truck. Can you imagine him sitting there riding his harley with the wind in his feathers, holding on with dear life. Chickens don't have hands, just feet. I wonder that he didn't spin round and round. Of course he somehow avoided being smooshed on the highway.

At this point in the story many people asked if we kept him as a pet. Ahhh, were not that nice. We loaded him in a cardboard box and he road in style in the front seat of the truck. The little gal that butchers the birds thought that was incredibly funny.

I have another funny story about a rooster trapping a VERY pregnant woman in a shed, but I'll save that for another day.