Mrs

[cluckbok]

maybe the trellis needs to be even higher still How about to the height of the concrete pillar? Can you get leads for chickens?

[Cooks]

is there a height restriction you can have trellis??

[Egluntyne]

Very funny, but I've got a crick in my neck through repeatedly watching it sideways.

[SAB]

Oh thanks for the great laugh - I have had an exhausting week trying to amuse various children and chickens in mostly pouring rain and really needed the laugh - thanks Maisie and family!

[Lapinou]

ROFL - haven't seen this before today, but fab photos and fab captions. Clever chickens

[Seagazer]

She really is determined to go over isn't she! I can't imagine what you will have to put up next to stop her

[Snowy]

I don't know about making the gate higher ... maybe you should attach little lead weights to her ankles ...

[Cooks]

I don't know about making the gate higher ... maybe you should attach little lead weights to her ankles ...

like little exercise weights?? seriously just got image of her in wristbands and a head band as well.. I worry about my imagination at times..

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Wristbands ? Where's she going to put them?

[Cooks]

we are talking about MY imagination, I didn't say it was 'do'able

 

edited to add, I see them on the ends of her wings personally, an orange shade would be so her colour. and maybe one of those excercise balls for her to leap on to jet propell herself over..

[Ain't Nobody Here]

[chocchick]

One they've done it once they keep on doing it

[Joanne]

Just caught this thread for the first time, absolutelly hillarious!!

 

I have a called Maisie and she is an absolute terror too, her favourite trick is to climb the clothsline prop when I inadvertantly leave it over the net fencing, she climbs up and jumps over then has full range of the whole garden and flower beds!

 

You gotta love em

[Scramble]

How funny!

 

Congratulations on winning the chicken war!

 

x

[sandyhas3chucks]

loved it

[mostin]

Such a funny video, I love it when they are working things out and you can see the cogs turning in their heads .

[GreenGirl]

that is great, she looks like a clever character

 

what is it that is so tasty on the other side!!

[mostin]

that is great, she looks like a clever character

 

what is it that is so tasty on the other side!!

 

I was thinking just the same thing , is there a big bucket of meal worms just out of shot on the other side of the fence we can't see?

 

Or is it just general chicken nosiness, and the grass is always greener .

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Well, I know you're all expecting a lush, green paradise (or a big bucket of mealworms ) through that gate. What else could be more inviting than a garden with grass, flowerbeds, shrubs and trees and any number of worms and insects?

 

This is the sorry truth .

 

 

So, yes, it's just general chicken nosiness - they'll all head through the gate in a flash if I leave it open. They just love to help me keep all the stones on the driveway tidy .

 

[mostin]

aaaahhh yes, gravel, the unsung chickens paradise. may be it's their attempt at japanese gardening? The lines in the gravel may have messages of cosmic harmony

[tidygirlsuk]

I can't wait to show my husband this when he gets in. thanks for a good laugh.

[ubereglu]

 

That's like our chickens, we have about a 3 and 1/2 foot gate to their run and Spice likes to jump on it to escape!

[Eggquisite]

Brilliant, a star in the making I think...

 

They look like real characters

 

[goodinparts]

wonderful, ANH Thank you so much....

Barbara (my bluebelle) is our escape artist - but what really makes me laugh is the way that, having got over the chicken wire and having the freedom of the garden, she then panics because she's not with her friends and runs up and down the fence bokking madly to them - but doesn't seem to be able to fly back the way she has come (despite not using anything other than wings & sheer determination to get there across in the first place). So then I have to go and open the gate and skuttles back to tell them all about the Big Wide World ....and we repeat the process an hour or so later

 

Having said all that, in most respects she's probably the brightest of my girls. But I didn't choose them for their brains