Just noticed it's started to snow! (Essex)
Is there anything I need to do for the chickens before I go out
in an hour or so?
(they'll be loose to the pen until their daddy comes home to put
them to bed around 6)

wrote:
Just noticed it's started to snow! (Essex)
Is there anything I need to do for the chickens before I go out
in an hour or so?
(they'll be loose to the pen until their daddy comes home to put
them to bed around 6)

Dunno. But I do recall a couple of hours before it started to snow one
winter a feral chicken that had spent the summer living wild on our land
and roosting in trees (after escaping from a neighbours flock) turned up
outside the hen pen wanting to be let in.

It had proved impossible to catch on several occasions as it was sleek,
fast and flew surprisingly well. The others all flew like bricks. If it
had understood how chicken wire worked it could easily have flown high
enough to get over the fence.

Regards,
Martin Brown

"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Dunno. But I do recall a couple of hours before it started to snow one
winter a feral chicken that had spent the summer living wild on our land
and roosting in trees (after escaping from a neighbours flock) turned up
outside the hen pen wanting to be let in.

It had proved impossible to catch on several occasions as it was sleek,
fast and flew surprisingly well. The others all flew like bricks. If it
had understood how chicken wire worked it could easily have flown high
enough to get over the fence.

lol I love it) Did it live with your others from then on?

Ophelia wrote:
"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Dunno. But I do recall a couple of hours before it started to snow one
winter a feral chicken that had spent the summer living wild on our land
and roosting in trees (after escaping from a neighbours flock) turned up
outside the hen pen wanting to be let in.

It had proved impossible to catch on several occasions as it was sleek,
fast and flew surprisingly well. The others all flew like bricks. If it
had understood how chicken wire worked it could easily have flown high
enough to get over the fence.

lol I love it) Did it live with your others from then on?

Yes. It was called "little black hen". It was happier roosting in trees
rather than the henhouse though. Much lighter and a lot more athletic
than the other birds could fly about 10' into the air from a standing
start! I think it liked the easier living since it didn't run away from
us the next summer. But it liked to roost in the conker tree.

All black and I never did figure out what breed it was. I thought it
would be a bit cheeky going round to the neighbour and asking (they had
a flock of hundred in several varieties).

Regards,
Martin Brown

"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Ophelia wrote:
lol I love it) Did it live with your others from then on?

Yes. It was called "little black hen". It was happier roosting in trees
rather than the henhouse though. Much lighter and a lot more athletic than
the other birds could fly about 10' into the air from a standing start! I
think it liked the easier living since it didn't run away from us the next
summer. But it liked to roost in the conker tree.

Athletic indeed


All black and I never did figure out what breed it was. I thought it would
be a bit cheeky going round to the neighbour and asking (they had a flock
of hundred in several varieties).

) Did you get eggs from her?

wrote in message
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Just noticed it's started to snow! (Essex)
Is there anything I need to do for the chickens before I go out
in an hour or so?
(they'll be loose to the pen until their daddy comes home to put
them to bed around 6)


This sort of weather, wet, cold, snow, sleet is exactly why the hen run was
built with a solid roof

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n005290709.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n006290709.jpg

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:03:51 +0000, wafflycat wrote
(in article ):


wrote in message
...
Just noticed it's started to snow! (Essex)
Is there anything I need to do for the chickens before I go out
in an hour or so?
(they'll be loose to the pen until their daddy comes home to put
them to bed around 6)


This sort of weather, wet, cold, snow, sleet is exactly why the hen run was
built with a solid roof


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n005290709.jpg


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n006290709.jpg




Love the doormat! I can't train mine to wipe their feet though :-(


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"Sally Thompson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:03:51 +0000, wafflycat wrote

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This sort of weather, wet, cold, snow, sleet is exactly why the hen run
was
built with a solid roof


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n005290709.jpg


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...n006290709.jpg




Love the doormat! I can't train mine to wipe their feet though :-(


*snork*

Would that The Laydeez use the doormat. Their manners are, however, foul ;-)