Naughty girl
I thought I’d lost my last hen today. She vanished for hours. Then we heard a soft clucking behind the sofa…
I’m sure she laid an egg back there, but it’s one of those hidden places that has become a maze of unnavigable junk. We’ll find it when it gets smashed some day, I suppose.
Have you spotted what is interesting about this photo? I caught her nictitating membrane halfway across her eye.
It’s easy to see in chickens. They do a sort of double-blink, where their inner eyelid comes across right before their outer eyelids close.
That’s a drowsy chicken. Alert chickens don’t blink.
Posted: June 28th, 2023 under animals, birds.
Comments: 4
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Comment from Deborah HH
Time: June 28, 2023, 9:54 pm
That would make an unusual painting, Stoaty. Do chickens nod their heads when they fall asleep? Everyone would want your drowsy, nodding chicken
Are your hands better? Can you paint again? You haven’t mentioned it in a long time.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: June 29, 2023, 11:24 am
“I’m sure she laid an egg back there, but it’s one of those hidden places that has become a maze of unnavigable junk. We’ll find it when it gets smashed some day, I suppose.
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 29, 2023, 5:56 pm
My hands are much better, thanks for asking, and I probably could paint, but every time I sit down to it, it’s like dust and ashes. It happens to me periodically and is one more reason I couldn’t make a living as a fine artist.
Drowsy chickens shake their heads from side to side and then collapse into the feathers of their ruff.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: June 29, 2023, 10:25 pm
Try Turmeric Weasy.
Seems to work, and surprisingly a fellow I camped with regularly, clout dropping now, who is a very nice retired Air Force pilot and flew for Delta had knotty hands and recommended it to me before I could recommend it to him.
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