While I was in Korea my Mum achieved a life long dream. She and my Step-Father purchased a lovely block of land in the country. It has lots of trees, a lovely house, a veranda, a garden and a glass house, a river complete with swimming hole and swing, a hill, 8 sheep and 1 chicken.
Actually they did not purchase the chicken. It flew in one morning a few weeks ago and has simply refused to leave. It is not a very nice chicken!!! It regularly attacks my poor blind cat. When Cinnamon (my Cat) pokes her nose out of the house, within a very short amount of time the evil chicken will be flying in her face, and trying to peck her. Cinnamon is becoming quite afraid to go outside. It also tries to sneak into the house, as it has discovered Cinnamon's cat food, and apparently loves it! She waits near the door and at opportune times, ie when the door has been left open, it will cluck it's way inside, and gobble down as much cat food as it can before it is found and shooo'd outside again.
The evil chicken does have one redeeming quality however, it thinks it's a puppy. When ever a human goes outside it will follow along at quite close range where ever the human is going.
Every morning we have heard her clucking triumphantly, announcing to the world the she has successfully laid another egg. Today I finally found the nest. There were seventeen organic free range eggs in it. They all passed the freshness test.
Guess what I'm having for breakfast????
That is a LOT of eggs! We had three chickens, and they 'weren't laying'...but it turns out they were. Behind a bush at the end of the property there was a huge pile of eggs that were weeks old.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't eat them...they didn't pass the freshness test...at ALL.
I love my chickens, even the Chinese Silkie Rooster that always attacks me. We get plenty of eggs to eat as well as putting some in our incubator. This week we are hoping to have 15 chickens hatching!!
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