Farmer Nyel To The Rescue!

Snowhite has been disappearing in the middle of the night.  She’s there, all fluffed up on the roost with the others when I go down to the coop to tuck them in and lock things up.  But in the morning, she’s gone.

The first time it happened was Sunday night.  Monday moring, the cheeky little hen surprised me by coming out from under our house and walking down with me to give the others a wake-up call.  I asked her how she managed to get out but… not a peep.  She busied herself telling the others all about her adventures and chowing down on breakfast while I walked around the perimeter of the run to see where the break-out point was.

I couldn’t find it.  So, of course, there was a repeat performance yesterday except that Snowhite was nowhere to be found.  She didn’t join the others for breakfast, never mind that I called and called.  Then, about midday, Nyel was in the east end of the house and saw her out the window — nonchalantly pecking around in the flower beds.

This time, I looked a lot more carefully and finally found her exit point.  It was one of those bendy breaks in the chicken wire that she could get out of, but not back in.  I didn’t think I could fix it, but Farmer Nyel said he could.  So, after lunch he went outside in his electric-all-terrain-super-duper-wheelchair and cobbled it all back together.

And, then!  He asked for some clippers and a heavy-duty bag for lawn debris and did a little rhodie maintenance — to make it easier for Tom-the-Mower-Guy to get around.  Wow!  It was SO fun to see him outside working with the chickens looking on.  And he says he has another project in mind for today.  Yay!!

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