Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[SAB]

My mini silkie cockeral (Gloria) more than proved his worth today. He only tends to crow incessently if there is something wrong (e.g. grub needs filled). Today as I was about to get in the bath he went on and on - I knew there was loads of food and so went to investigate - only to find a man with a chainsaw in my back garden! (Soundsl like a horror movie!!!).

 

Apparently the chap was there to cut trees away from the overhead lines and he really took the huff when I asked what he was doing on my property without permission - he left abruptly leaving me feeling so shaken I did not get chance to check name or number on van. We have contacted the company in charge of the powerlines to find out who he was and what right they have to enter private property without permission.

 

We are doing up our bathroom just now and have no window coverings, but as we are rural it does not matter. But for Gloria the man, whoever he was, would have seen me in all my glory in the bath!

[Cinnamon]

Crikey

 

I once had a man in my garden - he just wandered around the back, & vaulted a gate to try & read my electricity meter.

Gave me the fright of my life........& I gave him a right earfull too!!!

 

Good old Gloria - I am sure our Indiana would also raise the alarm, but then again he tend to go off if even so much as a leaf flutters down near his pen

[Gamebird]

What a cheek

 

How rude of him just to think he could walk around your garden without knocking on your door first to introduce himself.

 

What is the world coming to?

 

I would have been furious

 

Well done Gloria the Guard Chicken:

[Egluntyne]

What a cheek!

 

I once found a man in my front garden propping a ladder over my fence and up against next doors guttering.

 

I challenged him and it turns out that they had a wasps nest and it was easier for him to tackle it that way.

 

I would have been quite happy to let him do this IF HE HAD ASKED FIRST.

 

After obtaining a grovelling apology I let him carry on.

 

What happened to good manners I wonder.

[chelsea]

cripes! well done to the cockerel I say, - he deserves a big treat for that.

 

Darn cheek if you ask me, I would be furious and scared if I saw a man with a chainsaw in the back garden, OH would have a fit.

 

I would really complain to the company about this, in a rural area and being a woman alone in the house its not something nice to be surprised about in this day and age is it?

[SAB]

Thanks for your replies everyone. Worrying how many of us have had experience of non thinking blokes popping up in our gardens! I was pretty shaken by it all, which is not like me, and OH was furious. He has managed to track down the company and we have put in a complaint.

 

Gloria was rewarded for his vigilance by being given a plum as a treat, which he loves! So glad we kept him when he turned out to be a boy instead of a girl!

[Steve.]

Numerically-challenged window cleaners cleaned our front windows instead of next-doors.

[craftyhunnypie]

Spongebob, our red frizzle bantam cockerel is a great guard chook, whenever we come in the driveway - he starts! We love him to bits!

 

Emma.x