Is your dog's unusual barking a secret code for something mysterious?

[jill the potter]

As I know you all like piccies - thought you might like to see one of my girls at the back door. I had let them have the run of the whole garden but they spent most of the time on the step pecking at the door!!!

 

 

Don't you just love them?

 

p.s. does anyone else think the two on the left have abnormally large combs?

[gongladosh]

nice!

 

One of mine has a comb that big - it's funny, I know plenty of non-hen owners who reckon that combs that mean that the bird is male (which wouldn't explain the eggs !)

 

Those two aren't the top hen and 'henchman' are they, just out of interest?

[jill the potter]

No, Tikka the dark one is - we've had her the longest. The other two we only got in August. Was a bit worried about the combs in case they were cockerels, but they have both started laying so

 

Notice you're in Manchester too!

[bouldercroft]

very cute and very funny!

and lovely girls too..

[oneyolktoanother]

awwww they are so adorable great pic, i think there combs are normal size for the breed

[Cranfield Kate]

my girls do that too. they're let out to free range and they spend the whole time pecking at the back door.

[ElvisFan]

What lovely girls you have, mine do it too, its like having a couple of woodpeckers at the backdoor Its just that they want to be with their mummy !

[jimnpaula]

Just to say my white Sussex ?hybrid Pearl has a large comb too. She was top chook of the trio when I got them but whether she is now... possibly top ex batt Peridot has held onto that position.

 

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[Mr Rhode Island Red]

awwww they are so adorable great pic, i think there combs are normal size for the breed

What he said

[Chortle Chook]

Oh I do like pics and that is a particularly lovely one! Thank you for posting it

[chestnutmare]

Ahhhh - they want to come in and watch day time TV!

[Poached Egg]

Ahhh our girls used to do that until we got trellis up to keep the poos off the patio and plants in their pots. Snowy still has a bit of a bad patio habit though and is let down by the others obviously gawping and their poor lookout abilities. Heidi was on lookout from the top of the trelliis the other day and I swear she was ducking her head behind a 2" pole so we wouldn't see her

[jill the potter]

Ahhh our girls used to do that until we got trellis up to keep the poos off the patio and plants in their pots. Snowy still has a bit of a bad patio habit though and is let down by the others obviously gawping and their poor lookout abilities. Heidi was on lookout from the top of the trelliis the other day and I swear she was ducking her head behind a 2" pole so we wouldn't see her

 

 

Yes, I have had to play hopscotch this afternoon on the patio. They don't normally have all of the garden to FR in but I felt sorry for them as their patch of land is like The Somme That'll teach me eh?

[Plum]

So did you let them in then?

[mollyripkim]

They look really lovely, like they are saying let us in!

[Redwing]

good job you dont have a cat flap

[jill the potter]

Maybe Omlet should start manufacturing 'hen flaps"!!

[Calamity Jane]

My three do that too, not sure what is going to happen in the warmer weather as when I left the door open the other day two of them decided to come in and investigate my breakfast room !! My little lurcher just looked on and watched them peck at her dinner bowl. I shall have to train her to shoo them out or else put up a stair gate !!

[fluffyfeet]

What a lovely picture - I now have it as my background and it feels like I'm being watched

 

Dawn x

[C&T]

My three do that too, not sure what is going to happen in the warmer weather as when I left the door open the other day two of them decided to come in and investigate my breakfast room !! My little lurcher just looked on and watched them peck at her dinner bowl. I shall have to train her to shoo them out or else put up a stair gate !!

 

 

We have a stairgate to go across the back door! Does look daft when we have no children in the house - but stops a lot of chicken mess all over the carpet!!

[MummyHen]

The expressions are so comical - chickens are so inquisitive

The combs look normal size to me

This is my smallest hen and she has the largest comb ever

[Omletina Kyckling]

aw that's lovely. My girls used to do that when I had a glass door at the last house, at one point I had 12 of them on the doormat!!

[jill the potter]

The expressions are so comical - chickens are so inquisitive

The combs look normal size to me

This is my smallest hen and she has the largest comb ever

 

Wow Mummy Hen, that must surely be the largest comb ever......unless anyone else can prove otherwise!!