{"id":1578,"date":"2013-05-21T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:08:58","slug":"madder-than-a-wet-hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Madder Than A Wet Hen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day?<\/p>\n

I cleaned out the Chicken Coop today. \u00a0Thoroughly.<\/p>\n

Last night we went to Lowe’s and purchased some plastic chicken wire and some stakes. \u00a0I made a pen from those materials last night in which to place my hens this morning while I cleaned. \u00a0Worked like a charm.<\/p>\n

I learned the hard way that chickens do not like to have hose water sprayed at them and on them. \u00a0You have heard the expression, “Madder than a wet hen?”, well, it is true. \u00a0They were very unhappy chickens. \u00a0Beyond unhappy~they were royally P.O.’d!!! \u00a0Unhappy chickens are not very consistent when you want them to lay every day so I devised this idea to create a pen.<\/p>\n

Getting the chickens out of their tractor (I have a tractor for my hens instead of the traditional coop) was a trick. \u00a0I finally resorted to bribery with their favorite treat. \u00a0Meal Worms. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0Those things make me shiver but they make the chickens dance. \u00a0They love them! \u00a0So, I broke out the worms. \u00a0My husband helped me and we snagged the hens one at a time.<\/p>\n

We now have a sparkly clean chicken tractor and five disgruntled hens. The biggest problem facing them now is the heat. \u00a0Right now it is 95 F. and they are panting because of the heat. \u00a0I have tried a box fan but they are afraid of the fan. \u00a0I tried placing a pan of cool water out for them but they are afraid of the water. \u00a0I feel bad for them but there really is not much else I can do. \u00a0I guess they do not call them chickens for nothing!<\/p>\n

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Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest Day? I cleaned out the Chicken Coop today. \u00a0Thoroughly. Last night we went to Lowe’s and purchased some plastic chicken wire and some stakes. \u00a0I made a pen from those materials last night in which to place my hens this morning while I cleaned. \u00a0Worked like a charm. I learned the hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}