Loading ...Jealousy in the Duck House
A battle of wills is threatening to disrupt the peace and tranquility of the hen coop ….
Mrs Muscovy hatched 15 adorable ducklings a couple of days ago …. some are all yellow, some yellow and beige, some yellow and brown … all are the cutest wee bundles of fluff imaginable!
However … Mrs Muscovys daughter from last year (Lavinia) , and her partner, The Dinosaur, are intent upon stealing the children!! A childless couple (though not through lack of trying, I might add! ) they think they can muscle in on poor Mrs Muscovy and steal away her children … Mrs Muscovy is lurking in the dockings and nettles, calling her children around her, while the evil duo try every trick in the book to lure the unsuspecting duckie-dabblers away … juicy worms are dangled temptingly before the tiny bundles of fluff …. gentle coaxing noises are issued by Lavinia while The Dinosaur snakes his neck and shoos the ducklings away from the safety of their mother …
And Mrs Clucker (so named because she is one evil clucker!) bullies everyone! She has three half grown chicks who are clones of herself …. arrogant, fearless little cluckers who terrorise the lambs and stalk the dogs, and chase the wee ducklings mercilessly … so between these harranguers of ill intent and the child-snatchers, poor Mrs Muscovy is living life on the edge!
Add to this equation the handsom Mr David Clucker (so named because he is a two timing clucker ) and his wee mistress, Henny Penny, who were having an outrageously open affair in full view of Mrs Clucker and her offspring …. it is hardly surprising when Mrs Clucker sees an opportunity to raise hell for Mistress Henny Penny that she grabs it with a ‘no- holds barred - let - me - peck - your - eyes - out’ kind of fury that only a scorned hen called Mrs Clucker can do justice to!! Mistress Henny Penny has taken refuge in the garage …. her suitor, the cowardly specimen, sneaks in to give her a quick lesson in love then hurries back to Mrs Clucker, behaving for all the world like the devoted father of his evil offspring … calling them over to a tasty morsel he has found, and crooning to them if danger threatens — though this last act of fatherly protection is totally lost on the terrible triplets who fear nothing and would probably murder any bird of prey stupid enough to get within reach of their wicked beaks and razor sharp talons …. in fact, I wouldn’t put it past them to be actually laying in wait for an unsuspecting stoat or weasel so they can leap upon it and tear it to shreds … I can imagine their mother smiling in approval as she sees them ‘laying in wait’ … she is thinking they are practicing ‘going broody’ for later in life … when all the while, their demonic little brains are filled with murderous intent …
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