Guess what? Chicken butts!
So the chickens put themselves to bed at dusk every night, and half an hour later I steal out to set up the wildlife camera and look in on them. Say goodnight, as it were.
When I look in the henhouse, I’m going to see one of the following things:
butt-butt-butt-butt
butt-butt-butt-beak
butt-butt-beak-butt
butt-beak-butt-butt
beak-butt-butt-butt
butt-beak-butt-beak
beak-butt-butt-beak
butt-beak-beak-butt
beak-beak-butt-butt
butt-butt-beak-beak
beak-butt-beak-beak
butt-beak-beak-beak
beak-beak-beak-beak
So I have two questions. First, for you programmer types, this is basically a four-digit binary number, right? There must be some neat-o mathemagical way to work out how many permutations there are, and to ensure I haven’t missed any. Um, right?
And secondly — WHAT ARE THE CHICKENS TRYING TO TELL ME?
p.s. I know what you’re thinking. You think this is beak-butt-beak-butt. Well, you’re wrong. It’s always the two older girls at the left and the two babies at the right, but I lifted Mapp off her perch to check her feet and accidentally put her back in the wrong place (she’s going to be very cross when she wakes up in the wrong spot tomorrow).
So today’s secret message is BEAK-BEAK-BUTT-BUTT.
October 27, 2011 — 9:38 pm
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