Chicken Lessons

My Uncle Ben brought us a hen He named Alice, one afternoon He said, "She's sitting on some eggs," "That will start to hatch very soon " Alice hatched Tiny and Thumper They were hens and we were so proud Then roosters Blackie and Lucky hatched They turned out to be very loud Once a dog got into the pen But ran when we started to yell Feathers and chicks flew everywhere The damage at first hard to tell We found that Thumper lost an eye When we posed a careful vetting Uncle Ben called her "bugger eye" Which to us was highly upsetting! We learned that hens can lay eggs But they couldn't learn any tricks And we learned that roosters crow And that chickens and dogs don't mix!