Here’s something I’ve noticed: no one else around here ever has a chicken on them.
Not me. Not Jim. Not the dog (though he might want one if it came with snacks). Not any of the other goats. But Brandy? Brandy the goat? She pretty much always has a chicken on her.
This isn’t a one-time thing. This isn’t a fluke. This is a full-blown lifestyle choice. While the rest of the hens are busy scratching, pecking, and plotting world domination, one of them always decides that Brandy’s back is the place to be. And Brandy? She doesn’t care one bit.
Maybe she likes the company. Maybe she enjoys the view from under the feathers. Maybe she’s figured out that chicken feet make a pretty decent back scratcher. Or maybe, while all the other goats are out in the field, Brandy just prefers to hang around the barn—cooler shade, fewer bugs, and complimentary back scratchers.
There she stands, half-asleep and totally unbothered, with a hen balanced on her back like it’s a perfectly normal thing for a goat to wear a bird. Which, I guess, it is now.
The other animals? They're baffled. The others stare like Brandy’s broken some unspoken farm rule. The dog tilts his head like he’s trying to solve an algebra problem. And me? I just try to get a photo before the chicken hops down and acts like she wasn’t just using a goat as a sunbathing deck.
The thing is, the chickens always choose Brandy. Not one of the younger goats, not the fence post, not even that weird decorative garden gnome I keep forgetting to move. Just Brandy.
And Brandy, bless her stubborn, noble little soul, has never once tried to shake them off. She’s the goat version of a porch swing—steady, reliable, and apparently great for chicken naps.
So if you stop by and see a goat strolling casually through the barnyard with a hen on her back like some sort of poultry Uber, don’t worry. That’s just Brandy. She's got a chicken on her. As usual.
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| "Anyone else want a ride? I've got another itchy spot on my shoulders." |
2 comments:
Haha. That is just great! Like the egrets on the cattle.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
That is cute!!.. I had a few goats that would allow the chickens to hitch a ride once in awhile.
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