How Easter afternoon is spent at FAR Manor: Mrs. Fetched grabs me, Daughter Dearest, and Sasquatch for chicken house duty.
Upon arrival, a telltale thumping noise signaled the lack of feed at the #4 house. I banged on the bin, just to make sure the feed wasn’t stuck: hollow. When Mrs. Fetched called the field man, he said “the feed mill is behind, I’m not sure when they’ll be able to get feed to you.”
“I hope it’s not too far behind,” Mrs. Fetched said to me. “There was one grower who didn’t get feed for a week last year.”
“What? What happens to the chickens?”
“After a couple of days without feed, if a chicken dies, the other ones just eat it. If you don’t get to it right away, you’ll have the bones and the feet to pick up.”
I suspect what will actually happen: every evening until the feed truck arrives, I’ll help to dump feed from the other houses into a tractor bucket and unload it up at #4. The mental image of cannibal chickens will make this task somewhat less burdensome.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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Eeek. That's like an old X-files episode that I saw years ago. Chaco chicken.
ReplyDeleteHeh… fortunately, the feed truck has arrived as I type this. So no cannibal chickens this time!
ReplyDeleteGee, what would we do without industrialized farming?...
ReplyDeleteYooper… eat better, maybe? ;-)
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