Herding Chickens...

Oh... My... Gosh...

Talk about a cluster grope wrapped in an enigma with a side order of chaos... that pretty much sums up our chicken interaction last night...

On the advice of a friend, we were going to leave Those Damn Chickens (formerly known as "The Girls") in the run for a few days, in hopes that the One Damn Chicken will reacquaint herself with her home roost and not be such a PITA to deal with come bed time...

That was the plan anyway...

After our usual Taco Nite feast at Shooter's, T'wife couldn't resist letting them out for a while (and deep down I wanted to as well), so we turned them loose for an hour or so...

Let the fun begin!!!

Now in order to get Those Damn Chickens BACK into the run, the usual "chick chick chick" call with some treats had absolutely no effect on them... just stood there and looked at me...

Normally if I pick up my Official Chicken Whackin' Stick (also known as the Rod of Obedience), and thump it on the ground, Those Damn Chickens will make a bee line for the chicken run...

Well this time the exact opposite happened - they scattered in every direction... when you have 6 chickens, that's a LOT of directions...

I tried corralling them and they would group together, only to scatter again in, yep, 6 different directions...

As I stood there and contemplated how many shotgun rounds it would actually take me to deal with this, t'wife entered the fray... instead of me using The Stick, she wanted to try The Carrot...

She actually managed to get them grouped together and heading toward the entrance of the chicken run, but the closer they got, the more they scattered...

Tried that again, same thing... and again... and again...

I'm thinking that no more than about 8 rounds ought to do it.... but I was overruled...

At this point we have 6 terrified scatterbrained chickens everywhere, but t'wife managed to get them into a corner with two miraculously still in the run with the door closed...

One by one, she managed to grab each and toss it into the run...

Hmmmm - Ten or twelve rounds, maximum...

I wonder what adventures await us tonight???