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  • Chooks escaped........

    Last night was very windy here.

    I arrived at the allotment today to find four white hens and Sid the cockerel heading straight for me from the opposite end of the allotment to where they had been billeted in my greenhouse.
    The hens stopped short but Sid kept coming and launched himself at me. While trying to keep him at bay I had to pretend I was terrified and run back into the greenhouse to get him to follow me. It worked a treat. He came after me feet first. I could just about read his lips "Where the £$%$^ have you been and where's my grub"
    The wind had somehow blown the door open and Sid and his Harim had taken a wander up the allotment to where my other chooks are kept.
    The rest of the hens were captured by laying a thin trail of mixed corn into the greenhouse door and standing back. That also worked a treat, so alls well that ends well.
    Sid was hatched by me and has always been very macho. Nearer to the end of the month I intend using some of his harims eggs to incubate.............cripes knows, I hope his offspring don't all inherit his butchness as life could become very interesting!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper



  • #2
    LOL Snadge - I have a lovely mental image!

    I'm planning to do the same with Asbo - but his Sons will be for the table. Do you get aggressive Hens?
    Last edited by Glutton4...; 16-01-2011, 07:42 PM.
    All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
    Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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    • #3
      pmsl Snadge........ you and ASBo would make a great comedy programme
      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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      • #4
        Did you look around in case anyone was recorded it, be funny to watch on YouTube
        Location....East Midlands.

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        • #5
          my neighbour stopped me today and said how much he liked seeing my 'escaping chickens' and how effective they were at slowing down the traffic in our little lane.
          PS they come to find me every day, I need to re-do the fence but it has been so wet lately and Ive been so busy and I really shouldn't give them so many treats.

          francesbean
          My Square Foot Gardening Experiment Blog :
          http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...log_usercp.php

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bren In Pots View Post
            Did you look around in case anyone was recorded it, be funny to watch on YouTube
            Snadger - The Movie .............

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            • #7
              can just imagine it with a bit of benny hill music in the background! lol

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              • #8
                lol...Snadger..chook whisperer
                Anyone who says nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                  Last night was very windy here.

                  ...
                  While trying to keep him at bay I was terrified and ran into the greenhouse.
                  ...
                  fixed that for you

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by chrismarks View Post
                    fixed that for you
                    Just the opposite actually (says he in a butch voice)

                    The more he attacks me the less bovvered I am about it up to a point I will even go into the run with shorts on!
                    I would never put my face near him, but a few battle scars in other places I can live with.
                    Whats quite worrying now though, for his sake, is he now even tries to attack me through the greenhouse glass!
                    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      I don't blame you really. I don't like it if I'm head height with the chickens and they start to eye me up.. they can peck fast, I'd rather keep my eyes.

                      You've got to admire them.. would you face someone who's probably ten times your height, and 3 times your width? I wouldn't, spears/claw/sbeak or not!

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                      • #12
                        after watching the bbc1 prog on Jurassic Park tonight (they say birds share lots of dna with dinos, and have manipulated chicken embryos to grow longer tailbones...amongst other stuff)
                        I reckon Snadger is secretly adding T Rex dna into his eggs

                        Ive always sworn my lot are nearly pure velociraptor
                        Anyone who says nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by chrismarks View Post
                          .............You've got to admire them.. would you face someone who's probably ten times your height, and 3 times your width? I wouldn't, spears/claw/sbeak or not!
                          Not without an uzzi or a sawn off!
                          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                          Diversify & prosper


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                          • #14
                            Aye, but the equiviant size of your gun would be like a pencil. The bullets may sting, but you'd probably have time to still be trampled to death

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                            • #15
                              I had a hen turkey attack me at face level, well she intended to, but fortunately there was a washing line in the way. 20lb or so of angry hen turkey coming claws first at your face is decidedly off-putting!
                              She had 'stolen a nest' and hatched just one chick, and when I wanted to go PAST about 10 ft away (I had no intention of going near them) up she went!
                              Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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