Five Photos, Five Stories: Caravan for Chicks

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Five Photos, Five Stories: Caravan for Chicks

May 22, 2015 by dorannrule

This is Photo Story #2 for the Five Photos, Five Stories challenge. The rules are to post a photo a day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph. Oh yes, and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge. Today I nominate Dianna of These Days of Mine. This should be fun!

I was saving this photo for something

I just didn’t know for what.

It looks like a gypsy caravan in

the midst of a mystery plot

But it’s only a home place for chickens!

And I smile as I drive alongside

at the clucking mass of hens pecking

with a horse and goats grazing nearby.

Posted in Country Sights, Country Thoughts, Critters, Poetry, Random Impressions, Uncategorized, Virginia | Tagged chicken house, Chickens, country life, country photo, Country thoughts, Drive By Photography, farmyards, Gypsy caravan, Photo, poetry | 21 Comments

21 Responses

on May 22, 2015 at 11:55 pm kinkyhosegardenproject

Gypsy Chicken! Nice.

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:05 am Jill Weatherholt

I love this, Dor. It reminded me of the Geico commercial with the chicken who rides the train. Have you seen it? It’s hilarious!

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:11 am Celebrating Sunshine

These hens remind me of my grandma and my childhood. Love it! 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:41 am Life With The Top Down

It looks like some sort of protest. Chickens Unite!

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:57 am dorannrule

That’s it – a gypsy caravan for gypsy chickens! 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:58 am dorannrule

I laugh every time I see that commercial… range free! 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 12:58 am dorannrule

What a great childhood you must have had! 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 1:00 am dorannrule

Yes, and there are goats and a horse in the next pasture! 🙂 I think the human in the group makes goat cheese and of course, sells eggs. 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 1:10 am Mary

So perfect Dorann, your photograph is of the neatest variety that city folks don’t see too often. Loved the story, the chicken caravan – very cool!

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on May 23, 2015 at 2:10 am Silver in the Barn

Well, that’s exactly what it looks like, now that you point it out!

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on May 23, 2015 at 2:59 am joshi daniel

so many 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 6:31 am Eliza Waters

These mobile coops are great for moving the chickens around to clean (de-bug) and fertilize new pastures. Our friends have one and when a hawk flies over they all squawk and run underneath – very funny!

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on May 23, 2015 at 6:59 am dorannrule

I had never seen one before… interesting idea.

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on May 23, 2015 at 7:00 am dorannrule

I kept thinking of the one with Dorothy and the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz. 🙂

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on May 23, 2015 at 7:02 am dorannrule

I just learned from Eliza that this is a “mobile coop”, enabling the farmer to move the chics around and keep things clean and fertilize new pastures. Interesting!

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on May 23, 2015 at 11:33 am Dianna

Thank you for pointing that out to us when we visited! It has a certain charm… and perfect for your “picture story”!

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on May 24, 2015 at 12:08 am ritaroberts

I can just imagine these chicks hopping up into the caravan and rushing to find the most comfortable spot, especially if its raining outside.

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on May 24, 2015 at 2:20 am dorannrule

🙂 Yes, it does look like a cozy hen house Rita. 🙂

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on May 24, 2015 at 9:01 am Susan B Raven

What kind of hens are those? How many do you have? Looks like a dandy set up.

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on May 24, 2015 at 11:32 am dorannrule

They are not my hens Susan but I pass by a small farm en route to town. The chicken caravan is in one field and in the field next to it there is a horse and a lot of goats. It’s hard to concentrate on the road. 🙂

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on May 26, 2015 at 3:51 am Celebrating Sunshine

I had a great childhood, and I have very dear memories from that time. 🙂

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