Adding to the Flock.

...........and I'm just back from telling the girls a bedtime story...................but first, I had to put them to bed.
Mrs Brown was like a rottweiler at the entrance to the coop - she goes to bed early and stakes her claim to the dark corner, behind the perch, just inside the entrance. Every time I caught a chook and posted her through the entrance, Mrs B would extend her neck and make sure the new girl didn't want to stick around. So it was - 2 chooks in, turn round to  catch the 3rd and the first 2 would be out again - all making a racket with their squawking.
As it grew darker, they moved around less and eventually clambered on top of the nest box where I was able to scoop them all up, put them in the coop and hastily shut the door to keep them in.
When its dark they sleep and don't annoy each other but I'll need to be up at first light to let them out again before they can see each other.
Where's my alarm????