Chickenpile on the puppies!! Wait, what?

So our dog Maggie unexpectedly had puppies six weeks ago. (Well, to be honest, it wasn't completely unexpected - she was getting huge.) I had (mistakenly) been under the impression that a female dog would not go into heat until she was a year old. Oops. Anywho, as you know, we have 24 free range chickens running about the place. They were sticking to the woods, but now they have decided that the backyard, and everything in it, is theirs as well. As the puppies are in the backyard, in a pen that is kept open during the day, this has made for some interesting moments. Like this one:

Oh, or this one:

Yup... I love pseudo-farm life. :)