Chick party in the greenhouse
Rain day!
It did not start well. The forecast, usually accurate to the hour, was predicting rain starting at 9pm tonight. At 6am, pat. pat pat. patpatpatpatpat!
I leapt up. I needed to give the pigs access to their house. Yesterday I’d moved their house (thank god!), but I hadn’t cut out the path to reroute the electric fence around it. Really crappy work that I planned to do today before the rain (plenty of time!), as I was so tired and sore yesterday. Instead, in the dark before dawn, in the rain, while the pigs watched me impatiently, grunting. Hey. It’s raining. ME: You’re waterproof, you tyrants.
I got the brush cut out, and the fence patched around it, and they grunted right in. They just prefer to be in their house in the rain. I checked the forecast. It had changed, imagine that. Yes, it is indeed raining right now. And it’s now predicted to rain all day. That means the pigs will spend all day in their house.
Amazingly, I enticed Galahad to go back into the greenhouse. I figured he’d prefer that, but didn’t think it would work. I’ve never asked him to go back into the greenhouse during the day. And I released all the moms and their chicks inside the greenhouse! That’s Foxy, Fiesty, and Chocolate at large, plus Ursa, Clever and (unnamed) in their chickeries.
The chicks wouldn’t have any problems in the rain, but it would be hard on the hens, as soon as the chicks try to use Mom for an umbrella. Silkies aren’t even water resistant.
They were over the moon! This was the most exciting thing ever, apparently. Galahad etc weren’t too demonstrative, but content to be inside. We live here, what’s the big deal? The chicks and moms acted like they just got heli-dropped into Disneyland. The cheeping! The clucking! The scampering!
Oh the places you’ll scratch! Oh the things you’ll peck!
An hour later and they were still centralized on just the first fraction of the greenhouse.
It turned out to be a grey day more than a rain day, and I let Galahad out again for most of the day. It started coming down again early evening. The chicks were all late going to bed:) Best day ever!