At webmeadow HQ, we like it when our animals are happy. Food, water, shelter, sure those are all great. But what are we doing for fun? For the baby ducks, that's pretty easy -- water. Baby chickens, it turns out, need two things to be happy: dirt, and sticks. They like to, uh, "clean" in little patches of dirt, and to scratch in them for... well, frankly, for more dirt. They are too small to make any real bug-finding progress.
Sticks: now there's the real fun! If you prop up a nice sturdy stick, it does not take very long before the little chicks find it and make their way up. Sometimes they hang out at the top, but mostly they jump off and flap their little wings and fall like rocks* to the grass below. And then climb up, and jump again. Whee!
* That is not quite true. Rocks don't bounce like that at all.
Now, for the 12-year-old in all of us, a joke:
Guess what??
