The Unfortunate Incident

It has been an eventful month here at the Egg Farm with laying patterns altering just slightly with Winter well underway as well as being able to introduce our CSA members to fresh eggs. The first weekly pick up I offered only 3 half dozen cartons and they were soon purchased. Calls and emails were received and I was inundated with requests for eggs. I devised an alphabetical system of making sure all members are given the opportunity to purchase said eggs. This has worked rather well except when I forget to bring the eggs to the pick up site.
Also, the girls are now getting more attention and more regular coop clean outs  due to my new status as a stay at home Mom. I am no longer gainfully employed but I do slave away each day with 9000 plus heads of lettuce, 2 dogs, 5 cats and 8 chickens as co workers!
During the month of December, Thelma Lou, Helen and Daphne decided to fly the coop each day and putter around the yard. I would herd them back in only to have them fly out over and over. I had put in a request with my friend Marvin to come and clip all their wings but he had not been able to do this yet.
Yesterday we had a sweet young lady drop by the greenhouse to pick up her weekly share and she brought her energetic Lab, River along. As they were leaving, something caught Rivers eye and that something was Thelma Lou. She bolted as Labs are want to do and Thelma Lou being the experienced flyer that she is, flew up and over into the coop.NOT so with Daphne. She was caught unaware and was rescued by Bob after River gave her quite the rough handling.
It  appeared at first glance that she might be mortally wounded but not so. She is missing ALOT of feathers and one wing seems to be drooping a bit and she is walking with a limp today BUT she is alive and eating and drinking and that is a good sign. The funny thing is that she and Aunt Bea spent the better part of the day inside the old coop run just laying around together. It looked like a friend sitting with another friend when they are sick. The good thing about this is it looks as if River clipped Daphne's wing saving my friend Marvin the trouble! An unfortunate incident to be sure but one that had a happy ending!