Speckled Communist Americauna Rooster

I am often exasperated by the chickens at Prairie House.  I'm on a Yahoo group to share/commiserate with others in the same situation. I enjoyed this post so much I must share it.  The Americaunas are the chickens that lay the blue/green/olive eggs and mine are troublemakers as well.

Thanks, Jack, (Orioneer) for making my problem chicks seem so civilized.

"I've got a speckled Communist in the April 23 piece of the flock that's
giving me no end of headaches. A Communist, or maybe worse, an
anarchist. An independent free-thinking bird that's a leader teaching
the others to range so far I'm not even sure they can find their way
home.

He always tries to sleep in trees, first alone, then next night with a
pack of others following the example of Mr. Trotsky. This might well be
the most hard-headed, most obstinate chicken I've ever encountered. 
Nothing works to get this comrad back into the fortress at night, except
hitting him with the water hose to wear him down so's he'll park
somewhere I know, then coming up on him after it's too dark for him to
avoid capture.

This morning he's got maybe 15 chickens somewhere out there in the deep
woods right now so far out I can barely hear the practice crowing [or
trying to sing The Internationale - it's too far to tell which]. I
hunted them down in the woods to the east earlier and edged them home. 
So they went west this time.

I think I'd better start thinking about putting in an order for more
chicks. No more straight-run orders for me. All pullets from here on
unless I'm ordering cochins, buff crested polish, or heritage.

I'm thinking this one's going to outsmart himself and get offed right
out of the flock gene-pool if it continues. I'm just hoping he doesn't
take any others with him when nature does what it does to the cheeky
lieutenants just out of OCS who know too much to learn.

He ain't even old enough to be a 90 day wonder.

Good chicken though, generally. I'm going to hate to lose him."

Jack