Kupa woos the ladies! A must see!

Yesterday I emptied and cleaned the pig’s paddling pool and gave their whole pen a hose out. They were very helpful the entire time in a pushy piggy kind of way. 

It was such a lovely sunny day that I felt bad for the peahens locked up in their enclosure, so I let them out.  With gentle dignity they tip toed out into the barn. 

I went on to skirting Mama’s fleece. Pulling off all the dirty edges, and getting it ready for shipping.  There is so MUCH wool on one  sheep. I was working away thinking how the wind was catching some of the smaller bits of wool and maybe the sparrows would use it for their nests, when I heard a shushing sound from the barn behind me. A sound like, I don’t know, like twenty old working men rubbing their dried and worn hands together. Hands that have never seen lotion. 

I popped my head around the corner of the barn and The Duke of Kupa had transformed.

He had spread his juvenile tail feathers and was attempting to wow the ladies. As I watched he vibrated and shook the feathers causing them to rub on each other (that sound) and then he kind of hissed invitingly.  The girls were decidedly underwhelmed.  He shook and stomped and shushed some more and they wandered off to look at the pigs.  I am not kidding they actually jumped into the pig sty and I had to shoo them back out.

By then Kupa had this panicked look on his face. He had found the button to put the tail up but could not find the one to drop it back down again. Like when you are playing with the children’s transformers, you know it all folds back into place but HOW!  And his feet were not behaving they kept dancing up and down in some kind of jig.  His eyes kept swerving from trance to terror but after a period of great interest from the little chicks in their baby cage, he worked it out, and with a great sigh he allowed each feather to settle back into place and he was a our laid back Kupa once again. By then  Tui and Pania had taken themselves back into their enclosure to talk clothes. So I shut the door on them and Kupa went out into the fields to check on things and practice his Coltrane. Thank you, Bill. 

Maybe next time Kupa.

Good morning. The sun is up, the lamb milk is warming and I need to get busy. You all have a lovely day. Tomorrow I am packing up Minty and Meadow and the little chicks and TonTon and we are off to the old folks home again.  I think the lambs might need a wee clean up though. I like the idea of the old people watching the animals grow.

Have fun.

celi