Birds Eye View Or Rat Bird? Everyone wins!

Remember, Pepper's favorite perch is in the goat barn on the railing. This is fine when the humans don't bother her early in the morning and after the dark. See, chickens keep different hours than goats. Chickens tuck themselves in about an hour and a half before dark and hop off the perch at daylight the next day.

Its very disruptive to Pepper when we flip the lights on at  O'darkthirty in the morning to milk/feed and she has to fly away outside... especially if its raining and nasty. She is, again, put out of place when we come in for evening pet and turn out the lights time.

Having put up with quite enough commotion, she flew across Little Barn and up into the hay mow. Yes, its hard to imagine a chicken doing that but, she did.

And there she perched in peace looking down and keeping watch from above.

In the morning I did annoy her a little coming up the stairs to get hay/alfalfa but, she didn't mind too much because she didn't have to escape outside into the nasty, windy, rainy weather.

She calmly trotted away to the back of the mow.

Hmmm? I think she might be a good guard chicken and keep those pesky rats out of my barn!!