
So I've been waking up early every morning just to do my normal routine of chicken chores. I decided I wanted to get up at 6:45 so I could get everything done early, and that's what time the chickens normally are awake anyway, but I then decided at 6:45 in the morning that "I can do it later. They can wait."
This goes for high school too. That early in the morning and my mind works only on excuses and nothing else. Then I regret it later.
So I do my chicken chores at 9:00am instead.
The reason I'm talking about chickens today is that having chickens is very nerve racking. I compare it to sending your first child off to kindergarten. If I were a mother I would be able to compare better but this is how I imagine it feeling like for now. Basically, I adopted a medium-sized chicken named Jasmine (who's not fully grown at all yet) and decided to try and integrate her into the "big chicken" coop that's outside. I tried having her indoors at first, in a cage, but she was too wild, so I stuck her outside in the coop at nights in a cage.
The reason I stuck her in a cage, in a coop, was because she could seriously be injured by Mo( my older chicken). Apparently being a chicken is kinda like being a gangsta. It's Mo's turf and she don't want no pullets in her shade of the alley.yo.
Just to give you a brief sample of chicken like in the G-Ho.
So since Monday night I've given her protection in a small carrier cage to sleep in at night with some food and water, so Mo couldn't kill her. But tonight she's flying solo. ( Not really flying though because chickens can only go about ten feet in the air )
Tonight I put Mo in the coop, and left them alone for an hour and a half. When I came back Mo was in the nesting house getting ready for bed, and Jasmine was still on the coop ground pecking away. So I picked up Jasmine and sat her on the perch facing the door and left her there. When I checked on them again, she was still on the perch unharmed, and looking sleepy.
So far, SUCH A VICTORY! I split my V, I dot my I, I cuuuuurve my C-T-O-R-Y!
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