Perhaps you will remember that back in July I told you a story about a rather inept farmer and his unfortunate chickens,well it would appear that far from learning his lesson he is at it again.
It seems that the farmer had two hen house the first contained many chickens but unfortunately they did not lay many eggs. The second contained far fewer chickens yet these birds laid a great many more eggs than the others, in fact it would be true to say that these few hard working chickens made much more money for the farmer than the many in the first hen house.
At the end of the year the farmer counted his money and discovered that he had some spare cash. “I shall reward my faithful chickens,” he said “I shall build them a new hen house,”
Now it transpired that the farmer did not have sufficient funds to build two new hen houses, of course a sensible farmer would have built the new house for the chickens who kept his business afloat....a no brainer? Wrong, the farmer decided to spend the money building a palatial new residence for the chickens who's out put was pathetically poor.
Having done this he then told the industrious chickens that their house was to be given a lick of paint and that they were lucky to get it. This was both unfair and short sighted and showed how little the farmer really knew about his business.`
Now this was as you would expect very bad for the moral of the poor hard working birds and they felt that their efforts were not appreciated. Had they been less diligent they would have gone on strike for equal rights, instead with broken hearts the carried on carrying the whole farm on the strength of their efforts.
You will not be surprised to discover that the farmers name was SCROUGE!
And now the moral of the tale, the stingy old farmer should remember that these much abused birds may well decide to become free range and as their hen house is in such a tatty state there is very little to keep them where they are; and after all there are other farmers in need of productive hens especialy in these times!
I imagine that many people reading this will wonder what the devil I am waffling on about and from those I beg a pardon. To any chickens out there I say boycott the old hen house if you cannot gate crash the new one. To the farmer I say this, having already been the cause of much misery to these poor hard working creatures you might at least show an even hand when dealing out treats. Doing something just because you can does not make it right!
Here endeth the lesson. Admonished, march out!
After that sad little story I need cheering up and so I shall tell you about a funny thing which happened this morning. While washing up I noticed a rat munching happily at some bird food which had blown from the feeding station,suddenly our tame fox came stalking across the path unseen by the rat, next came my cat stalking the fox every bit as quietly. The fox pounced upon the rat at the identical moment when the cat pounced upon the fox. The fox dropped the rat in alarm and it took advantage of the situation by bolting down a hole..
Much chagrined the fox rounded on the cat which ran of in to the orchard and promptly climbed a tree whereupon the fox ran about beneath in frustrated fury. Meanwhile the rat returned to the food and once again munched happily away. The fox became bored and sloped off, the cat climbed down the tree and came indoors and I shot the rat five minutes later. Soon after it was eaten by a magpie. Thats life.
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