They are definately different from the white Einsteins. Using the eptitaph "squirrel" is not so far-fetched. These babies are very precocious in their flying attempts, bug catching, and escape-to-the-wild instinct. Maybe having their wild cousins parading through the corn and wheat fields has given them delusions of grandeur...
At any rate, they needed to be out of the brooder house before they broke their necks trying to catch the bugs flying in through the chickenwire window.
The decision to move them to the poultry barn at the home farm didn't come any too soon for Jetta. She has definate opinions on what is a chipmunk/squirrel and what isn't... She hangs out on top of the brooder house just to prove her point.
"Oh, oh. They warned us about this. Nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...we're doomed...doomed, I say..."
"Yeah, and don't you go trying to make a break for it - I'm right here keeping an eye on you..."
Team work is our motto. We are used to doing "chaingang" to move everything from wood to turkeys. When you have as many bodies as we do around the farm, who needs boxes, wheelbarrows, etc.?
Carrie got the job of capturing. Hand off to Max...
...after securing those wings. As I said...determined to escape. Max is an eager helper, just give him a job...any job.
Then next handoff. Max to Than. ( Than and Collin had just returned that morning from Scout Camp. Another story, another day...)
"I can do it MYSELF! Let me do it!" Being the good Scout that he is, Than patiently (snort, snort) let Max do his thing.
With only a little coaching. "Max, come on, you can't reach the cage, give him to me..."
There. All loaded. Nothing to it.
...after securing those wings. As I said...determined to escape. Max is an eager helper, just give him a job...any job.
Then next handoff. Max to Than. ( Than and Collin had just returned that morning from Scout Camp. Another story, another day...)
"I can do it MYSELF! Let me do it!" Being the good Scout that he is, Than patiently (snort, snort) let Max do his thing.
With only a little coaching. "Max, come on, you can't reach the cage, give him to me..." 
There. All loaded. Nothing to it."Yep, der dey are!"
"And good riddance. Now I can find some real chipmunks. For a bunch of farmers, these people have really got their animals mixed up."
She just doesn't understand. Compared to the quiet Einsteins, they WERE squirrels....
"And good riddance. Now I can find some real chipmunks. For a bunch of farmers, these people have really got their animals mixed up."
She just doesn't understand. Compared to the quiet Einsteins, they WERE squirrels....
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