You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

We didn't name our piglets, and they sealed their fate with me by breaking out of their fenced area at 2am and running riot, eventually ending up hiding from me under one of the sheds, glaring back at me with red eyes, lol. I enjoyed their demise and really liked butchering them. Revenge served cold.

The chook though, the first one, that I met one morning on the way to work, sitting in the middle of the Control Gates Bridge at Taupo, one bedraggled terrified white chicken who had obviously come off a truck, I named her. She was the first chook I had ever handled, I got out of the car, picked her up, got back in and took her to work with me. She spent the day in a cardboard box in the safe of the National Bank with food offerings from my fellow staffers, and couldn't believe her luck. I took her home, and we had her as a pet, bossing the cats around, ignored by the dog, even when we acquired a small flock, she still thought she was one of the family. Till she laid an egg in our bed. Then she got put in with the rest each night and learned to be a barn chook.

Lovely birds, chickens. Small brains, but intelligent for all that. Knowing that doesn't stop me roasting one every fortnight though!