Jeanne Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 After all my bragging to everyone who was willing to listen, and even those who didn`t care, about my lovely, quiet, hardly know I had them chickens, they have been replaced! I went to check for eggs today, and as soon as they saw me they all started shouting to be let out (I keep them in until about one so they get plenty of pellets) So much for quiet. I ran back in the house and hid. They soon shut up LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FORENSICA Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Sorry, but that is funny. I guess, that is the normal way how things evolve with the chickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjules Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Once they're used to their surroundings there's no stopping them. I regularly have to go outside and tell Daffodil in no uncertain terms to shut up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 It may be time to buy a water pistol!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Welcome to the wonderful world of chicken-keeping! Soon you'll be developing "hen stoop" like the rest of us, from ducking down to sneak past the windows all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I thought someone had stolen your chickens! They do turn into gobby little horrors don't they? Particularly when they've laid an egg, they just love to tell you, and the rest of the world! Mrs Bertie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanne Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 I am sure I have some supersoakers around here somewhere. I can`t do that to my little chickens though surely "hen stoop" I can see that happening. They watched me as I tootled around the kitchen. I bet they kept the shouting to be let out up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanne Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 I thought someone had stolen your chickens! They do turn into gobby little horrors don't they? Particularly when they've laid an egg, they just love to tell you, and the rest of the world! Mrs Bertie I was tricking you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Phew!! I thought they had ended up in some-ones pot too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickled egg Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Oh yes, I regularly have to think twice about walking past our patio doors 'incase the hens see me....' And as to actually going out in the garden without an offering - usually a few rasins, well they soon let you know they have been brought up to expect better! I don't know who is top hen, but I know its not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanne Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Ooops, word censored!"ody warned me about this bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Aww, it's the lovely sunshine that does it - my girls have been shoulder barging the Eglu door of a morning for the last week or so! I must say it works like that with me too, now that the sun is up and streaming thro the curtains on a weekend I'm all 'COME ON! Let's get up and do stuff!' much to my other half annoyance (he likes a lie in on the few days we don't have to get up at stupid'o'clock, bless him). I think I might end up in the Eglu if I'm not careful!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanne Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 I used to sneak off back to bed after dropping the kids at school, but the chickens entertain me so much, I stay up now. My older children think they have a new Mum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "hen stoop" ... good term! My kitchen goes right across the back of the house - french door and bay window in the dining-room part, glass door in the kitchen - and no curtains or blinds on any of them, so there is no escape! I have noticed though, that while they trample on each other in excitement when they see me first thing in the morning, they do soon settle down and get on with chickeny things if I ignore them. It's satisfied me completely that actually they are quite happy in the run, and all that fuss is just emotional blackmail. I can't wait to move them back up the end of the garden though - it will be lovely to get breakfast without five little faces glaring through the bars at me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...