The Big Coop In The Sky

This is Flo, reporting to you from Cluckingham Palace. It has been awhile since we have posted. The Palace been a rather a somber place this Summer. We have lost three chickens to the "Big Coop in the Sky". The deaths of our sisters and the Earl have taken a toll on the farmers confidence.

We lost our sisters Michelle and Nizzy and the Earl. RIP Girls. We were hoping, in death, you could escape the Earl, but he went with you. Bless your hearts.

Today was the monthly Palace cleaning. The farmers arrived with equipment, buckets, brushes, gloves and a small army of helpers. They turned the palace inside out. They scrubbed and cleaned for hours. I had to get in there. I am an afternoon layer and they decided to clean out my nesting box! Farmer K saw my distress and threw some nesting flakes in my box. I watched them clean out the palace and they watch me lay my egg. It was a little undignified I might add. I fussed at them and told them to get out, but Farmer B had a crazed look in her eye and a sparkling clean palace was the only cure.

We are happy, happy hens. No boys, only girls at the Palace. We aren't scared anymore and our feathers are growing back from the Earls affections. We are much more trusting and like the farmers to hand feed us our meal worms.

The Farmers know we will all go to the Big Coop in the Sky eventually. They were not prepared for the suddenness of our sweet girls...and the Earl. They were all given a fond farewell from the Cluckingham Palace and will be missed terribly.