Unsecure chicken perches

[Old Speckled Hen]

I have one broody, safely tucked up in a coop of her own.

When I lifted Flash, the cockerel, out two nights ago(to put him in our undercroft for the night so he doesn't disturb everybody from 4am) there was a sussex hen in the coop (I don't have sussex but my neighbour does) I walked the 100 metres or so to our boundary and popped her over the wall the next morning.

Last night she was back.

Flash is obviously snaffling her to make up numbers.

How do I tell my neighbour that my cockerel is stealing his hens He has about ten of them so maybe he won't notice

[Henergy]

I'm sitting here worrying about runny poos (chickens not mine) and boy did this make me laugh What a great way to cure Morehens disease !!!

[Daphne]

Never heard of that before

[Old Speckled Hen]

He walks over that way.....clucking like cockerels do when they have food to share....whenever there is an egg announcement from my neighbours hens. I guess one of them decided to hop over the wall. I don't really suppose he nicked her... she probably free ranged in the fields with them during the day and went home with my hens.

[Redwing]

Easiest introduction ever!

[Old Speckled Hen]

Easiest introduction ever!

 

They are funny, chooks, aren't they?

I would never be without them now...they are so entertaining.

[Lavenders_Blue]

A colleague of mine lives in a village where pretty much everyone has hens roaming about, totally free range. A couple of months ago she lost two hens and her next door neighbour lost one, all at the same time. It turns out that they'd decided to move in with the cockerel down the road, the floozies

[Lewis]

 

Chicken of fate!

[Old Speckled Hen]

I think she may be spotted ................. Wrong colour to blend in

She was ambling around the field again with the rest yesterday but I put her over the wall at bedtime.....she just tootled off home.

[Alis girls]

Lovely story - she is doing well extra food, attention - who gets the eggs?