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[craftyhunnypie]

Oh what a night exactly! We have been looking for escapee chickens!

As you know we have recently had a new chicken shed & recently stocked it with new chooks. Last week, we got 2 chickens from Wernlas ( Cassandra & Marlene ) which have been great & this morning they were joined by 2 more from a local supplier.

We got a cuckoo maran & a welsummer, both 11 weeks old called Frenchie & Fanny.

Got them home, shut them in house for half an hour, then let them into the enclosure with the others. Bit of pecking, but nothing to worry about & eventually they were all doing the chicken dance & searching for tasty morsels!

Tonight, we came to shut them in. The 2 Wernlas girls were roosting on the balcony rail inside the house, but the new 2 were missing. Nowhere in sight. What a panic!

Search and found Frenchie the welsummer near the garage, but couldn't find Fanny the maran anywhere. Our chicken sitter & her dad came round searching too & my sister & brother in law also turned up. So there we were 6 of us searching in the trees & bushes in our garden, in the neighbours garden, in the garage...everywhere. No sign. We were fearing that we'd lost her til morning & my brother in law saw her at the bottom of our garden roosted on a log. Scooped her up & clipped her wing & did her welsummer friends too. They were popped into the chicken house & shut up for the night. Hmmm. We think they had used the open shed door as a step to get over the fence. What a fright! We will be in the local paper next for runaway chickens!

Emma.x

[Egluntyne]

Phew....I'm glad they turned up!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

What a relief . Losing a chicken on her first night wouldn't have been good .

[craftyhunnypie]

I shall be helping hubby tomorrow to make the fence a lot lot higher. The poor little loves must have been quite frightened by their adventure. Either that or triumphant at their acheivement.

I was besides myself, thinking the poor little mite, out all alone, open to the elements & any predator.

I'm a bit worried now though, even though they are hubby's chickens - as we are going away for 10 days on Thursday.

 

Emma.x

[hillfamily]

Glad you found them both in the end :D They certainly do know how to worry their chicken mummies and daddies

[Karen & co.]

Gosh I'm so glad you got them back safely

 

Karen x

[..lay a little egg for me]

Hi Emma

 

Glad you got them back. Just thought I'd pass on that our neighbour who also has Welsumers found they were escape artists and one turned up camping in a garden about a mile away!

 

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Welsumers are known to be 'flighty'...looks like it might be true.

 

Hopefully the clipped wings will have stopped those antics!