Quick bit of help please - escapee!

[jamjellybina]

Jesse has manged to squeeze herself out of the chunk of garden we've fenced off for her & the other 3. What's the best way to get her back in as it's nearly bedtime as it's starting to get dark. I've been in and stroked them but this is only day 8 and as yet I've not picked any of them up and to be honest I can imagine myself chasing her round the garden for the next hour lol bit of help needed please

[vicky]

Round her up with the help of as many little people as there are available?
Entice her in with a slice of bread?
Stalk her at dusk and grab her once she roosts (fingers crossed it's where you can reach!)
A big net?
Let us know how you get on and remember you get £250 if you film it and it's shown on the tv!
(seriously, don't worry, she'll probably go back in once it starts to get darker)

[Pumpkin Becki]

Put some mixed corn in a tin or plastic tub with the lid on and shake it. She should come running when she here's the sound!!

[jamjellybina]

She comes running for corn but I run the risk of letting the others out too haha she would escape when I'm trying to cook dinner & manage the baby by myself. I'm starting to see why people call 5pm the witching hour I just didn't want to set things backwards by making a grab for her. I shall try opening the run right up and hoping the others don't escape too - hopefully the corn is too interesting. Thanks

[Pumpkin Becki]

Could you shut the others into the coop so that you can leave the run open for her?

[jamjellybina]

That was very very easy lol chooks seem to more motivated by food than puppies!! Shake of the corn tub and she ran straight in past my feet into the run. Thanks again - hopefully soon we'll be letting them have most of the garden to run round in anyway so fingers crossed any more escapes will be just as easy.

[Snadger]

Put some mixed corn in a tin or plastic tub with the lid on and shake it. She should come running when she here's the sound!!

Good advice Becki! I do the same to get mine to come to me..........the trouble is that loads of chooks had escaped or been let out from another allotment and when I shook my tin I had chooks decending on me from all directions..........must be a univeral language!

[janeyo]

More chooks for you then snadger - you must be like the pied piper of chickens lol

[Pumpkin Becki]

Good advice Becki! I do the same to get mine to come to me..........the trouble is that loads of chooks had escaped or been let out from another allotment and when I shook my tin I had chooks decending on me from all directions..........must be a univeral language!

That's classic!

[jamjellybina]

I've got the task tomorrow of chicken proofing the boundary fences as they keep escaping from the pen we made - 2 jump on the coop roof and hop over and the other 2 flap up onto the fencing and jump down on the other side. Just hope they don't jump my wall on one side - it's around 4 1/ foot with a 10ft drop on the other side to the road...

[MaureenHall]

Oh dear! That sounds iffy. Is there any way you can attach something to the top of the wall that slopes inwards so they can't land on the wall? Either that or make them balls and chains on their ankles

[Glutton4...]

My Chook fence is only about 1m high but they've never even tried to get over it. They can get up on the nest box (same height) and their old coop roof (higher), so I guess the fence's electricity current puts them off!

[HayleyB]

lol, Jamjelly that started me off on the theme to Mission Impossible

[MaureenHall]

lol, Jamjelly that started me off on the theme to Mission Impossible

And me onto the theme from The Great Escape

[HayleyB]

Yep great film as well

I suppose because the yard is so big my lot havent tried to jump the five-bar gate or the gate height wall either side. Mind you the girls have wisened to the other side belonging to 3 huge loud barking GSDs that all want a drumstick or ten