It’s a logic problem; I’m sure of it. It’s like the wolf, the sheep, and the cabbage who need to cross the river but the canoe can take only two at a time, and the wolf eats sheep, and the sheep eats cabbage. What to do?
Except instead of a wolf, a sheep, and a cabbage, we have three batches of baby chickens.
The first are the beloved Lumière chickens, birthed in June and raised happily all summer. Ok, so one got picked off by a mongoose (Mamma Cas) and the other a dog (Beatrice)… but we are still have two growing chicks (Thelma and Louise) to be terribly proud of. And they have one protective mother.
Then we have a batch of 10 chicks died in paint that were given to me as a get well gift. One was eaten by the cat and another trampled or pecked to death, but the rest remain. They have no one to protect them.
And most recently we’ve added four gorgeous Grace babes, that have the awkward situation of two mother hens.
For housing, we have a hen house that’s loosely divided by a bamboo mat, and a bucket with a basket.
We started with the two mammas and the Grace babes in the basket, but the Thelma and Louise’s mother kept pecking the unprotected colored chics to death. Literally.
So we moved the Grace chicks to the hen house and put the colored chics in the basket, but the two moms are pecking each other blind.
And Thelma and Louise are simply way to big for a basket.
Anyone particularly talented in solving puzzles?
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