Chicken Invasion!

The past couple of days have been a true example of what it means to live in small-town Texas.  First of all, about a week ago I had one of my students ask me if I would ever be interested in purchasing some "farm-fresh eggs".  We have a couple kids this year who are entrepreneurs and are selling eggs.  I decided for $2, I could buy some eggs.  He did tell me that I should crack them in a bowl first, in case there was some blood in it.  Yummy, can't wait to try one! Haha

The very day after I brought the eggs home was April 1st...April Fools' Day.  When I dismissed the kids to PE at 10:15 in the morning, I checked my phone and saw I had a voicemail from my husband.  When I listened to the message, I couldn't believe what I was hearing.  He was saying that he went by the house to drop some things off and we had 2 "full-growed" chickens running around and squawking in our back yard.  I wasn't even thinking of it as an April Fools' joke at the time, I was just wondering who on earth would have abandoned some chickens in our yard?!  I called him and he said that there were in fact roosters in our yard and it donned on me that is was April Fools' Day and I started thinking about who I knew that had chickens.  I decided it had to have been his boss, and I just happen to work with his boss's wife.  He said he already asked his boss and of course he denied the roosters were his.  Well...I marched out of my room and found the wife and asked her and she couldn't keep a straight face!  Yep, those roosters came from them!

When I went home I didn't see or hear roosters, so I let my dogs out.  Sure enough, 2 roosters came clucking and flapping and started running around the yard!  The dogs were chasing them, and the roosters chased back.  It was total chaos!  Then one of those roosters managed to climb the chain-link fence and flapped its way over into the neighbor's yard and disappeared.  The other one disappeared too.  A few hours later we found it and caught it, and hopped in the truck and dumped it back in the yard it originally came from.  The other one we never found, but we sure did hear it at 6:15 this morning!  So there is a rooster somewhere loose in the neighborhood.  Hopefully someone will get it and eat the sucker!

Here is a picture of the one that never left the yard.  I called him Henry.  We returned him to his owner last night.  At least I feel better knowing they are stuck with him again!