Coming Home to Roost
Jun. 18th, 2009 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
errantemberAfter waking up at about 5:30 PM today, I launched into another chicken project with a vengeance. My Fine Feathered Friends have revealed a preference for roosting Elsewhere, Elsewhere, in this context, meaning somewhere other than the coop. The manual relocation this problem causes every night is a far cry from my eventual goal of 100% coop-door-automation.
"Wow, this automatic door is really rad. I'm totally impressed."
"Thanks!"
"Where are the chickens?"
"Over there."
"You mean 'over there' as in 'not in the coop?'"
"Well...yeah."
After perusing a chicken book from the library, I hatched a plot to add a roost to the existing coop, and I just got done installing it and hand-relocating four quiescent poultry to their new digs.
If you push on their chest with your wrist, chickens will climb onto it, just like a parrot.
Just like a parrot, only heavier.
A certain amount of disoriented flapping was involved, but the girls are installed in their new home, and my roommate can look forward to at least several hours of power-tool free audio 10 feet from his bedroom.
"Wow, this automatic door is really rad. I'm totally impressed."
"Thanks!"
"Where are the chickens?"
"Over there."
"You mean 'over there' as in 'not in the coop?'"
"Well...yeah."
After perusing a chicken book from the library, I hatched a plot to add a roost to the existing coop, and I just got done installing it and hand-relocating four quiescent poultry to their new digs.
If you push on their chest with your wrist, chickens will climb onto it, just like a parrot.
Just like a parrot, only heavier.
A certain amount of disoriented flapping was involved, but the girls are installed in their new home, and my roommate can look forward to at least several hours of power-tool free audio 10 feet from his bedroom.
