We had a glorious weekend of wonderful
heat and I took advantage of the sun to hang my laundry out of doors. As chance would have it I had the chickens
out free ranging in the back yard at the same time I started to hang up my
sheets. All of a sudden I saw a double
line of chicks streaming rapidly from the evergreen tree by the house down into
their chicken run. What on earth, I
wondered. I had never seen them
voluntarily head for the coop so I looked about me, expecting to see a dog or
cat lurking suspiciously nearby. I saw
nothing.
I continued hanging up the sheets when
suddenly there was another commotion coming from the chicken run. Now the hens were heading for their coop and
going inside. What on earth? Then it hit me. The flapping of the sheets was sending the
girls into a tizzy. I began to
giggle. I suppose this was the first
time they had noticed the sheets appearing out of nowhere and because of the
breeze there was some wild flapping going on that they were not used to.
What was remarkable was how swiftly the
girls proceeded, in orderly fashion yet with speed, into the chicken run at the
first sign of trouble. Usually when they
get a little upset they will run willy nilly every which way. One can always wonder at the strangeness of
the universe.
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