Egluntyne Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Have spent the morning at the Royal Hallamshire having a minor op...under local.....nowt serious....and blow me down if the conversation didn't meander round to chickens....and it turned out that the surgeon has nine! Just wondered if anyone else had encountered a fellow hen keeper under unlikely circumstances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 In a meeting with senior civil servants about freedom of information requests we discovered that we all had chickens - but then the request was about egg labeliing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 chatting to the butchery counter assistant at Waitrose, I mentioned chickens ( how on earth did I manage to get them into the conversation? ) and she used to keep bantams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 I've had that recently too - 3 people who have collected freecycle items from me in the last week have either got chooks or want some. On eof the people who attended my advanced course on Sunday is a Doctor - she took her paperwork to her review in her Omlet bag, and got chatting about chickens with the person reviewing her I've made loads of friend from circumstances like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 The plumber who came to fix my washing machie ahd 9 chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 At my recent interview - turned out the bloke who was interviewing me had chickens - came up as I taught a lesson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 My media teacher keeps chickens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 We had some building work done on our front porch last year and the chap who replaced the guttering kept chickens. I'm sure he spent more time drinking tea and chatting to my chooks than he did sorting the gutters out! Just a good job it was the insurance company paying him rather than me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 one of the drug reps has chickens and a duck who was hatched under a hen & is frightened of water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 (edited) I found someone at a funeral once. And a checkout girl at Tesco too And the lady who came around from environmental health to check out a noise complaint I made She saw a Glug on the drainer & said 'Oooo- have you got an Eglu? - I really want one for my hens' Edited May 20, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 The lady on the till at Waitrose. She always asks how 'The Girls' are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missuscluck Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 The plumber who came to fix my washing machie ahd 9 chickens. Totaly off topic but Helen I love your little wheelchair smiley!! Lots of people around me have chickens, its a bit common now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 There's not many chicken keepers round these parts I haven't met another, but I don't mind being known as a chicken pioneer (or that mad woman in the second hand clothes with chicken poop on her shoes ) Ooh, I love Helen's wheelchair smiley too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 I know of 3 other chicken keepers in N.London, I met 2 of them on Freecycle and the other joined the forum. I know there is somebody really close to where I live because the guy that delivers my chicken supplies from Titmuss told me there is somebody that lives 'just round the corner' but annoyingly he wouldn't give me their address Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 I met a nurse who keeps chickens when I had to go to our local hospital after cutting my finger in the Easter hols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 A rather posh and frightfully nice, very neat and tidy lady who I go to slimming world with has 3 hens. Like Clash City Rocker said - "chickens are the new rock and roll!" Mrs B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chili pepper Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 My post lady has chickens so do 3 of the mums at my sons football team and our plumbers apprentice has them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazygal Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Two of my friends in my book club have them. The man who fitted our new boiler's daughter has them. Someone I work with has some. and lots and lots of people I know want them!!! It's really common round here...but still 4 months on I'm getting people saying to me "have you got chickens?!!" because their children have spotted them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ange1 Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 A lady in the village has them - but I never knew and I only realised when I spotted her 'free range eggs' for sale sign and knocked on the door! She invited me round the back and introdoced me to her girls all 30 of them!!! Wonderfull. Oddly though she didn't have any eggs for sale as she has broody hens and the other girls are hiding them around the garden and the lady has no idea how old they are when she does find them! Are all hen owners lovely or is it just coincidence?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clash City Rocker Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 I was having a Beer after a round of Golf on Sunday when a woman came over and asked me "Are you the chicken man" ? She got 2 Gingernuts and an Eglu from Omlet last month and is desperate for them to start laying. She doesn't use the message board was going home to have a look at it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 The man who fitted our new boiler's daughter has them. Your boiler has a daughter? What did he fit her with ... oh, I see! Sorry Crazygal, couldn't resist - I thought I'd get that one in before ANH, she's usually quick off the mark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 I can't think of any unusual ones. I was accosted at the checkout and the woman serving wanted to make sure I bought free range eggs so I said I didn't... she started her spiel and I had to intterupt to say I didn't buy eggs cos I had my girls. I should think a lot of people round here have chickens. Matthews class has 11 children in it including him and he has them and two of the other children live in farms. I would say that was a fairly high percentage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 I found an eglu at the bottom of my road. Even though you had to peer round a hedge a bit to see After investigating the forum found they'd had chickens longer than us and were about to move. We just thought we were the only ones on the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazygal Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 The man who fitted our new boiler's daughter has them. Your boiler has a daughter? What did he fit her with ... oh, I see! Sorry Crazygal, couldn't resist - I thought I'd get that one in before ANH, she's usually quick off the mark! I know I know I did read it back and think that doesn't read quite right- but was too lazy to correct! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surferdog Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 My Mum! When we got our chickens she told us how she used to keep pullets when she was a teenager - hatching from eggs and everything! She had never ever mentioned it before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
