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[scottishchicken]

Seeing as our most bolshy chook, Chatty has been virtually throwing herself against the door of the run for the last 2 days, and the girls have been with us for 4 days now, we decided to have a go at free ranging tonight.

 

They went out at 8pm, all except Scoot, who is either just a little nervous or agoraphobic

 

We went back out at 9.30, which is still early dusk up here and 2 had returned to the run, the 2 confident chooks were still wandering about, but are easy to pick up as they don't panic and leg it when you go near them like the others (is this because of the breed - Isa Browns - or just that they're a little more mature?)

 

However, one enterprising chook had jumped the fence. The good news was she was trying to get back to the run and we herded her in after 5 minutes of fun.

 

Mission complete!

 

Here they are...

[jennym]

Aw, sweet - well done. My Gingernut Ranger, which I think is a very similar bird to an Isa Brown, is by far the most approachable of my three. She doesn't come looking to be picked up or cuddled but she doesn't run away either. The other two are less approachable, unless instinct takes over and they crouch. It's quite funny when that happens, I can see that they hate it and they really, REALLY want to move, but they just can't...hehe, shouldn't laugh but I do

[sparkysmum]

Lovely looking hens & great to see they have so much space

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Lucky girls, all that grass .

[scottishchicken]

Heh, what you can't see are all the weeds, which have the grass outnumbered 8:1

[Jools]

Don't worry about the weeds, your chooks won't!

 

Lovely set up you have up there.

[scottishchicken]

Thanks Jools!