Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Well, I guess it was just a matter of time before the Barry family, too, began to experience egg shortages...
In the last few days, close to 20 or so adult hens have laid exactly one egg in the last 72 hours. That is NOT one egg per lady. That is one egg from the entire group. Period.
Word in the coop is suggesting that the ladies have banded together, and gone on strike.
Scuttlebutt suggests that their list of demands include:
1, An air conditioner be installed in each of the two henhouses. They already have electric fans, but our heat index has been in the triple digits pretty much every day for weeks on end, and they are not happy with the endless, relentless heat. If they had a computer and an internet connection - as Dobbin does - I feel sure a couple of AC units would already be on the way...
2, A never ending ice making machine - preferably with an automatic dispenser that automatically drops crystal clean ice cubes dorectly into their water buckets.
3, An electronic bug zapper for all the flies that are hanging around their henhouse right now
and
4, Some kind of custom built gizmo for stopping two legged, featherless giants from stealing what eggs they do produce out of their nests. I heard through the grapevine that they are thinking something along lines of a red hot poker - which, of course, would be easy to keep red hot in the relentless, brutal heat in their southern henhouses...
In the last few days, close to 20 or so adult hens have laid exactly one egg in the last 72 hours. That is NOT one egg per lady. That is one egg from the entire group. Period.
Word in the coop is suggesting that the ladies have banded together, and gone on strike.
Scuttlebutt suggests that their list of demands include:
1, An air conditioner be installed in each of the two henhouses. They already have electric fans, but our heat index has been in the triple digits pretty much every day for weeks on end, and they are not happy with the endless, relentless heat. If they had a computer and an internet connection - as Dobbin does - I feel sure a couple of AC units would already be on the way...
2, A never ending ice making machine - preferably with an automatic dispenser that automatically drops crystal clean ice cubes dorectly into their water buckets.
3, An electronic bug zapper for all the flies that are hanging around their henhouse right now
and
4, Some kind of custom built gizmo for stopping two legged, featherless giants from stealing what eggs they do produce out of their nests. I heard through the grapevine that they are thinking something along lines of a red hot poker - which, of course, would be easy to keep red hot in the relentless, brutal heat in their southern henhouses...