I'm just imagining you sliding across the pourch on icy chicken poop. Cat vomit does the same thing in December. Ask me how I know.

Oh.. and I tried free range (remember my Frizzles?)... My Lab ate them. He used to chase cars and horses and I've got him over that but a fluttering chicken that makes the same sound as a sqeek toy is just more than he can stand. He was fine with them for weeks.. and just one evening they didn't go to their cage... One minute all 4 were there, and then I went inside for maybe an hour... came back out and they were just gone...

HOW do you get mad at an old lab for eating $20 worth of chickens... I was mad.. but I love the dog more. When we get a pond dug next year and I can move the ducks out of the dog kennel Ill put him in there while I turn the chickens loose for awhile. He doesn't chase the ducks as they fight back and they have the pond. (at the old place.. no pond here yet.. like I said)