This is What We Call The Muppet Show!!!!

I have to tell you...

I am happily riding along in the ebb and flow of farm life once again.

Up with the sun (and the rooster's crow),

I pull on my jeans and tee shirt and head out for a day of farm chores...

happier than a pig in mud!

The farm is lush and green, with blossoms everywhere you look!!

The gardens and animals are happy and thriving...

making life seem pretty darn rosy these days.

Do you remember two years ago when I brought those 

12 Ameraucana chicks home from the feed store?

Well, you might remember that 6 of the twelve turned out to be Roos

and ended up living together in the Frat House.

(The Frat House is a small coop located close to our house 

and far away from the hens.)

You might also remember that a couple of the more adventurous of those Roos

packed their bags and moved to the barn.

Eventually, there were only two Roos left at the Frat House.

We call them Statler and Waldorf.

(Yes, that's right...those two grumpy old men in the box seats of the Muppet Show.)

Life for Statler and Waldorf has gotten quite exciting since the new

young hens are allowed out in their yard.

The boys spend their days watching the lovely hens...

trying to figure out how they could get inside to fraternize.

"But wait a minute," says Statler.  "I am sure there are a few young gentlemen

amongst those ladies."

"Just what we need," mumbles Waldorf,  "more competition."

Overhearing their conversation,

I decided to take stock of my hens,

and sure enough there were 6 that were quite suspiciously growing large combs.

I placed a call to Murray McMurray Hatchery, because I seem to remember 

a note on the invoice saying that there may have been some

males added to the shipment for warmth.

Sure enough, sweet Gladys answered on the other end of the line that

"yes, indeedy" some Red Star Roosters were added for warmth.

"What do they look like?"  she asked.

"White with a little rust on their backs?"

"Yup,"  I gulped.

"Why, yes indeedy, that's them!" she cackled.

Back to the henhouse to count....

one, two, three, four, five, six.

Oh, please say it isn't so...

six more roosters!

Yes. 

Indeedy.

 It's so.

This is what they will look like in another month or so...

Goodness gracious!

Oh my... Statler and Waldorf are going to have a big adjustment to make.

And mornings around the farm are going to be a whole lot noisier!

And I'll be singing this tune....

"And now let's get things started 
Why don't you get things started 
It's time to get things started 
On the most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational 
This is what we call the Muppet Show!" 

(Gonzo blows his trumpet)