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~~~And You Thought (hoped) My “Stupid Hen” Posts Were Done~~~

~~~And You Thought (hoped) My “Stupid Hen” Posts Were Done~~~

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  HA!!!!! But wait there’s more…………………. *******Disclaimer:  There Are Snake Photos In This Post.  Those Who Don’t Want To See A Lot Of Snake Photos…..Don’t Look At This Post  (Simone…..this means you)******* Remember when we thought that ultimately putting the “stupid hen” into the overly-secure turkey coop….. …..that her chicks would be safe…..?….. …..remember that!?!….. …..well that was wrong….. …..we’ve had rain…..we have mud….. …..it’s everywhere….. …..it’s in the lower portion of the turkey coop….. WHERE DID THE STUPID HEN…

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***Stupid Hen…….(the next day)***

***Stupid Hen…….(the next day)***

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You are probably asking….. …..did the Stupid Hen come back to her chicks whom (who?) she abandoned in the coop…..? …..no….. …..no…..she did not….. …..but…..ten of the eleven puff balls somehow managed to scramble up the inside ramp in the coop and tumble down the outside ramp in order to run after and try to find their unconcerned mother….. She ultimately (with no credit to herself) collected nine of her babies….. …..one stayed in the coop……and one was very raucously…

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*******Stupid Hen*******

*******Stupid Hen*******

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They do have tiny heads….. There’s hardly any room for brains….. The ducks and the turkeys (yes, even the turkeys) are so much smarter….. Remember my posts a few months back…..where I was racing to get eggs and doing battle with the crows…..? Previous Post—“Daily Egg Hunt” (03/07/20) Previous Post—“Where Have All The Eggs Gone?” (5/31/19)  (…..hmmmmmm….it looks like I’m just a little vitzy & compulsive when it comes to crows and my chicken eggs…..doesn’t it?) The crows were plotting…

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Multi-Purpose Horse Trailer & Chick Hatchery

Multi-Purpose Horse Trailer & Chick Hatchery

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  The Speckled Sussex hen is at it again… She has successfully laid a clutch of eggs and has sat on said nest for about twenty-one days and now has a cute little brood of yellow & brown cotton-ball-shaped chicks running around the inside of my horse trailer… It’s a safe place for them… Well not totally safe, but better than a lot of places… What the hen didn’t think about…………………………was what to feed them after they hatched out, while…

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