Half-way chickens

You know that joke, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

It's meaningless at our house. The Almeida chickens don't cross the road -- they stop in the middle of it.

They do not seem to have the desire to actually get to the other side.

And even after beeping the horn repeatedly and driving really close to them, they don't budge.

One of several fearless hens in the Almeida driveway.

It usually takes one of the kids jumping out of the car to shoo her away.

We're not sure how Lucky Lucy broke her leg last summer but recently we've speculated that maybe she was one of our half-way chickens we just didn't notice.