After I got home from work, it turned into a #2 day for Claire and Emma. First, Blue found a fresh cow pie to his liking and was pretty much covered on one side of his body. His patches of white were greasy grey-brown. Since Emma is the lead caretaker, she had the privilege of washing him.
Claire was putting the chickens away and had one that did not want to go home. So she caught it and the universe sensed that it was time to even the sibling score and the chicken did a #2 all over her hand, shirt and legs. She wailed riotously at the injustice of it all to the point that we thought she had been attacked by wild canines.
Hi you all…just got caught up on all of your doings….sorry Claire that the chicken messed all over you…I’ve had that happen also. We have to get up at 5 am Wed to take the chickens to be butchered at Maxwell. Some of my chickens have been coming up to me so I told them thank you tonight for them becoming food for us. The responsibility to raise them kindly is so important and at my house this is one of the values we believe in. I think we as a society have done a huge disservice to our chickens by having them bred to be walking breasts …
Claire, I love your quilt. How very special.
Today I helped the mama cow and her blind calf move to the big pasture and I will just hope that the baby will be very very careful and not fall into the big creek. So far the mama has stayed up on the hill all day with the baby. I’ll check tomorrow after we come back from taking the chickens and see where the baby is.
Have a good rest of the week everybody…
Bev@Baxter
P.S. thanks for blogging Claire!
It was gross! it was all yellow and slimy and warm! It was just the last straw,and everything built up to that horrible event.