The Great Poultry Adventure, Part 2

So, hubby gets home before me. He calls me to find out what he needs to do, I said see if you can put the chickens up or get the ducks in their crate and I'll help you when I get home, I'm about 20 minutes behind him. He rings off.

He calls me back 10 minutes later in a flat panic, "there are no chickens! Only ducks!".

So I ask if he sees any blood or feathers, do the ducks look disturbed? No, they are fine, just quacking away.

"Well, maybe they are in the duck crate?" "No, I can't see anything in there."

"Put the ducks up and I'll help you look when I get home", "OK, I'm going to check the trees and the pond area, just in case."

So we conclude the call and I'm driving along, 5 minutes from home now. The phone rings.

"Hello?", "The blasted chickens were in the duck crate! They are all huddled up together and upset with me because they fell over when I moved the crate!"

"Did you close the door first?" "Yes, so what do I do with the ducks? I don't think I'm up for a duck rodeo!"

"Get the other crate and herd the ducks into it, they should zip in without a problem.", "That's what you think, alright, I'll try."

The phone rings.

"Hello?", "I can't believe it, I put the crate out, stepped behind them and they zoomed right in!"

"See? You are getting to be quite the duck wrangler.", "This is less stressful than I though it would be."

I get home and everyone is peeping and quacking away quietly.

This morning, I dragged the crates into what hubby calls "The Exercise Yard", as he is spraying the Prison today *lol*. I propped the camper top open with a handy stick and got the food and water out, "chick, chick, chick, chick" and the mottled cochins come running out, eager to see something new. The smaller roosters don't want to come out so I close the camper top and leave them be after replenishing water and throwing in some food for them to scratch around and find. I let the ducks out, and then the roosters and everyone immediately gets busy scratching and searching. The ducks got some zuchini floating in the water bucket, and tonight I'll set up the little paddle pond for them. I got some free 5 gallon jugs so I'll load those on the wagon and fill them up, then haul them to the garage and have them ready to fill up the paddle pool.

I think they are quite enjoying the change of scenery :)