I let the girls out into the yard about 8am into a beautiful sunny day with just a light breeze, Threw out Scratch calling "chick chick," guess that's what your supposed to say, anyway they didn't need any coaxing. They hit the Scratch hard. Annie was allowed to join us, and did very well with "no chase/nice'.Cal and I sat outside with our coffee and watched them cruise around cooing and clucking and making a brrrrrrrr sound.
I heard a hawk calling somewhere in the tree about 2 houses from us. Both girls alerted and headed for the coop. Very smart. They both went up into the nest/roost area and within 3 minutes Barbara had laid a nice little brown egg.
We have so many trees and shrubs in out yard that a hawk would have a difficult time diving down to get the girls, but just in case, we put their outdoor patio in place that gives them extra room to hang our while still being able to go right into the coop, and stay safe.
Latter today we went back out and each held a little girl petting and talking to them for several minutes. Annie tried to jump on our laps too, but we gently told her no, but leaned down to pet her. However, her knickers were still in a twist. She walked out into the yard, seemingly ignoring us. However we found her sneaking a peek at us from behind the potted geranium. It was so dang cute, those little brown eyes peeking through the leaves. That was our cue to let the girls down and pick up Annie who wanted some cuddles too, as if we don't cuddle her constantly. BUT- it was progress as she did not chase or bug the chickens at all.
This is part of my chicken wrangler dream, to be out in the yard with the girls and Annie, living in harmony.
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