Fun with chickens

While I wish for spring, the continuing cold keeps us in winter and I will have to wait to clean the coop out. Yesterday I took an armload of hay out to freshen the floor. When I walked in, looking a bit like a mobile haystack, the chickens panicked with cries of "Monster! Murder! Run for your lives!". Then, as I spread it around, those still inside changed their tune to "Hey, what's all this?" and began the fun job of scratching it about. Sherlock went a bit mad and burrowed in until she was completely hidden and didn't budge even when Princess walked right over her.