We interrupt the previous post in progress to report that the girls had their first experience with being handled rather roughly and being moved several times today.
Bad weather from Hurricane Lee has sent us loads of much needed rain but not all in the space of a few hours. Some flooding has already occurred and will continue through out today and into Tuesday.
At about 8:00 am this morning we noticed that the area we had moved them to was more than likely going to flood.
With a pry bar and a furniture dolly and two strong men (Gib and Bob) we started the move...but wait...the girls were out in the run and needed to be moved into the coop. Simply saying "Girls go inside" did no good. So Bob...6'3" stooped over, entered the run and backed all the girls into a corner and proceed to catch each one and place her in the coop. You have never heard such indignant sounds! Finally all were inside, the door was shut and the move began.
Warning....do not attempt to move a VERY large structure such as this wearing Crocs! I so wish someone had filmed this. Bob was the only smart one with boots on!
The coop was moved with a few engineering modifications and they are now just outside our bedroom window where we can monitor the water issue. It took them about 1 hour to come back out of the coop but they are now happily pecking at fresh grass!
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