Little. Yellow. Stupid.

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Victory! I have solved part of my chicken trauma. Every day, one of my largest hens would disappear from the yard for 1-3 hours. I plugged up all the holes in the fence and Marzipan still got out. I was walking around the yard yesterday, looking for escape routes…I had that horrible feeling she was right under my nose. It was making my brain itchy because I had been thinking about it a lot for two weeks. Where was my chicken? More importantly, where were my goddam eggs that I knew she was laying in secret?

I should explain our yard a little, because it’s absolutely weird. We have this house that’s the size of a large apartment, maybe. This is not so bad, because we don

8 thoughts on “Little. Yellow. Stupid.”

  1. congrats on stopping the egg eating. keep us posted. i’m city folk — i’ll live out my chicken fantasies vicariously through your blog.

  2. Hey, cool beans on showing the chickens what a little more evolving and some opposable thumbs could do for them!

    But, erm… I’m a little confused / disturbed about one little teensy passage. Namely,
    ‘…when Mr. Husband is horning for hours and hours on end.’

    I’ve decided to choose to believe that he plays a horn, and the small apartment makes it hard to get away from the music.

    The alternative — that he is the, ahem, ‘horn’, and that the small apartment makes it hard to get away from Mr. Husband’s Mr. Happy — would just keep me awake at night, I’m afraid.

    And not in a good way. I’m just saying.

  3. Hi Charlie,

    Yes, um, regular readers know that Mr. Husband plays the alto saxamaphone, as Homer Simpson says. :)

  4. the thought of you filling up the egg with hot mustard and tabasco, and then the chickens pouncing, makes me almost yowl with sadistic glee…. probably they will develop a taste for it and just start pecking at the door and holding up little signs asking for more tabasco please…

  5. Alternative egg innards:

    –Jack and Coke
    –marshmallow fluff
    –Sour Patch Kids gummy worms
    –Egg Beaters
    –Nutella

    Think of the endless fun!!! :D

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