Black Betty Saved My Life

I was in dire need of cleaning the chicken coops and moving them to greener pastures. They have made little dust pens out of the ground they were on. They like to take dust baths and make holes to keep cool so they like the dust but I also know that they like fresh grass. The larger coop had bricks around it because I was paranoid about predators digging. I have not seen any digging activity and I have had the chickens for about 6 months. Since they have been OK so we decided not to put the bricks back around the coop. As I was pulling up bricks, I saw a black widow go running from one of the bricks I picked up into the coop. Black Betty caught a glimpse of it and was on it. She gobbled it up-end of story. I was a little worried that it would hurt her but I read that chickens have been know to eat brown recluses and black widows. While I was narrating to Dave what had just happened, Ava was on her swing (obviously listening to me) singing "Black Betty, Black Widow". Yuck. I hate spiders that can hurt you.
Anyway, both coops have been moved to new grass and the chickens are so happy. They were pecking away at the grass/ground. I expect tomorrow they will look green from eating all of that grass :)

Next weekend is my birthday and I will be 32 years old.
Ava told Dave that she wanted to buy me some scissors for my birthday.