Feed Bay Footprints

The feed bay manger hay looked swam-through. Spike circled wide. Suzy cast close.

Prints: kelpie-sized (their own last night), a boot heel (The Boss, off-camera), and scratchy bird marks (Pavlova’s choir).

Layer the timeline, Spike said. Who came last?

Bird scratches sat on top of boot heel edges. Chickens last. Boot middle. Dogs earliest — routine check.

Choose: tidy hay, coop-check Pavlova, or confirm Boss already did morning feed.

Hay was fed; chickens rearranged for drama. Queen behaviour. Not theft.

Care: sweep clean so cattle get true feed access. Lead: note it for Farm Keepers — chickens visit mangers.

No Graduation Cap appeared for solving. Suzy is not a quitter and also not graduated. Truth over trophies.

Footprints stack like paragraphs. Read the top sentence last if you want the ending.

Mixed prints. Sorted story. Hay reset.

Detectives who blame first miss the bird on top.

Layer prints. Chickens last. Hay true.