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[3hens2cats]

Hello,

 

We'll I think I have found our ring leader! It appears that Meg is the erm 'feisty' chicken.

 

1st act of rebellion - eating all the tomato plants (dh not pleased),

2nd act - he left the kitchen door open and you guesed it Meg got in a polished off the rest that were waiting to be potted up.

3rd and final act (finished of with a raspberry flourish) he netted of a section of the gardent to re-seed, we let them out of their run, sat down for a cuppa and Meg and Red (partners in crime) managed to get into the cordoned off area. How we don't know,but they did.

 

I found it quite amusing, Esme (lay chicken mama in my absence) was very proud and Dh was calling them horrid names (chicken nugget, etc)

 

they are friends again now, until the next veggie/fruit destruction incident.....

 

just had to share

Naomi

[Steph101]

[carrie]

I had a similar thing happen last night, I got home to find them out of their area and in my veg garden, I now have no lettuce, onions, spinach or beetroot.

Definately naughty chooks.

[cluckbok]

Oh dear what naughty chooks! Ours do the same, Rosie gets behind the chicken wire fence we have put up to keep them off the slated section, she got in there yesterday and I went and told her off and clapped my hands and she came running out! she may be a chicken but she's not stupid! she knew she shouldn't be in there!

[mostin]

Oh dear, houdini vegetable stealing chickens

[CALNICK]

after reading your stories we are pleased that we took on an allotment!

 

calnick

 

[Henhathnofury]

I read your post and had one of those smug parent moments - that oh my girls would never behave like that.... feeling

...went out today mid-morning and there were no chickens. Rustling from the bushes and they appeared, having had a wonderful time trampling the garden. All my beautiful yellow primroses have been churned up by those giant lizardy feet, half my pea plants eaten.

 

I did raise my voice and all four of them submitted as if bowing for the queen. So I laughed and gave them all a hug.

 

That will teach me to be smug!

[Egluntyne]

Never a dull moment!

[Valkyrie]

That happened last year - and this year. Goodbye leeks, beetroot (although the roots were still OK - they'd eaten the tops), turnips (the whole lot), chard and spinach. I thought I'd be clever this year and put some aside specially for them. So I have given them some spinach and in another pot, some mixed salad leaves. Have they touched them? No, but I expect they are waiting for me to put them in the veggie bed first!

[katieadams]

One of mine has a thing for my mint at the moment - not content with eating the pea shoots and veg patch they're having the herb patch now!! Our whole garden looks like it has a giant slug problem where they've taken great beakfuls of each leaf!!

[surfer_chicken]

We are currently in the process of building a fence to keep our very naughty chickens away from our vegetable patch

At first we just put a few boards up in the hope it would put them off... but as soon as we let them out of the eglu Tango picked herself up at flew head on at them! Luckily it was very easy to pick her up and back into the eglu as the poor girl looked very dazed!

Can't wait to see what they do to our rasberries when they grow

[Kirstine]

I have evidence that chickens have always been naughty:

 

DH and I were discussing the origin of the Australorp breed yesterday, i.e. whether they had been bred in Australia to be like Orpingtons, or whether they were descended from Orpington stock. When it turned out to be the latter, DH pointed out that it made sense, as they had probably been transported for naughtiness!

[Valkyrie]

That explains it then! I have been extremely stressed out this morning with my naughty girls. I finally gave them both botty baths - and even then Apache wouldn't get out of the sink and complained when I lifted her out. At the moment they are scrabbling a little too close to some French beans and eyeing up my Jerusalem artichokes. Again I dug a trench for the runners, and again it has been filled in. Oh great - they are making a racket again. I'm sending them to Oz!