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Title: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 02, 2011, 20:51
I was delivering a meal to a new client today (meals on wheels) and just happened to notice a nice new hen house in 1 of the neighbours gardens.  Ended up hanging over their wall shouting "chickies chickies".  No reply  :blush: hope nobody saw me but just couldn't help myself. Defo need help  :D  :D  :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 02, 2011, 21:26
Yes you do need help  :nowink:  :lol:

You'll be taking mealworms on wheels next  ;)
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: trinamc on February 03, 2011, 09:21
YES I think we are all a little bit mad, I think it is one of the symptoms you get when the chicken bug hits! ::) ::)
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: hillfooter on February 03, 2011, 10:42
Yes you do need help  :nowink:  :lol:

You'll be taking mealworms on wheels next  ;)


Ha ha ha :lol:
HF
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: rachelr on February 03, 2011, 10:52
I have been known to peek round corners to just see what different chickens are in the neighbourhood. Honest???????????
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: orchardlady on February 03, 2011, 13:23
I quite regularly drive a route that I don't really need to take just to have a look at some local hens roaming an orchard. My friends have now learnt never ever to ask how the hens are as I tend to go on just a wee bit and I start to see the glazed look in their eyes. My mother is excellent in indulging her chatty daughter but just occasionally will hold up her hand and say 'Stop, enough'.

OL
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 03, 2011, 17:16
Yes you do need help  :nowink:  :lol:

You'll be taking mealworms on wheels next  ;)
 

 :D  :D  :D Very good  :D  :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 03, 2011, 18:11
I aim to please  8)  :lol:



Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: francais on February 06, 2011, 12:36
I must confess...Hubby mentioned when he drove home from work he saw some chicken free ranged at the side of this row of terraced houses, so I made him drive me past to see what sorts they had....how sad is that???
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 06, 2011, 14:01
There's not many chicks around here (they aint cottoned on yet) but would have been nice to see them.  Don't think they have arrived yet though.  The place was just toooo tidy.  Nice clean leaves covered the whole area and lots of things to jump and play on.  Looked lovely.  :tongue2:  :tongue2:  :tongue2: Will have a look next week.  :D  :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Chrysalis on February 06, 2011, 17:37
Yep, we are!  I teach music to individual students and we often spend time chicken chatting.  It doesn't improve their clarinet playing or their singing, but hey!  It's the chicks that count, eh?
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: LittleRedHen on February 07, 2011, 12:38
I snooped to see all the hens at the allotments last week - and talked to all of them!   :nowink:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: ManicMum on February 07, 2011, 17:17
There's not many chicks around here (they aint cottoned on yet) but would have been nice to see them.  Don't think they have arrived yet though.  The place was just toooo tidy.  Nice clean leaves covered the whole area and lots of things to jump and play on.  Looked lovely.  :tongue2:  :tongue2:  :tongue2: Will have a look next week.  :D  :D

But are you mad enough to knock the door (house not coop!) on the lines of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours"?
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Evansent on February 07, 2011, 18:26
On my way home from the school run, I cut down a track, across a very muddy field and into a little coppice, just to take a look at some chickens in someones garden.....in retrospect, I probably looked like I was casing the joint!!! :ohmy:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Beakybird on February 07, 2011, 18:47
 :lol: :lol: :lol: Ahhhhh....sigh....I think I have found my home on the net :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 08, 2011, 18:37
There's not many chicks around here (they aint cottoned on yet) but would have been nice to see them.  Don't think they have arrived yet though.  The place was just toooo tidy.  Nice clean leaves covered the whole area and lots of things to jump and play on.  Looked lovely.  :tongue2:  :tongue2:  :tongue2: Will have a look next week.  :D  :D

But are you mad enough to knock the door (house not coop!) on the lines of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours"?

To be truthful, yes, I actually am  :lol:  :lol: If can't see them on Sunday, will knock door, pretend I am delivering meal and just happen to mention the Chickens  :D  :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 09, 2011, 08:43
OK I repeat..............yes you do need help Jinty   ;)  :lol:

Pssssssttttttttttt - I'd do the same  :lol:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 09, 2011, 19:55
Well just went one worse!!  A farmer I deliver too told me that his grandson has 2 chooks and I have started delivering right next to where the grandson stays.  Yahoo!! saw the chicks today. Obviously I was straight out of van to say hello to them and just happened to have some green cabbage with me.  :lol:  :lol: Told the farmer that I had been talking to the chickens.  Grandad said the boy wanted a few more, to which the grandmother replied "he doesn't need any more".  I said "Oh, yes he does!!!"   :tongue2:  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 10, 2011, 06:52
Well to be fair, who doesn't travel without a few chickie greens just in case  :nowink:  :lol:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 10, 2011, 20:35
Just happened to fall into Asda en route.  Had some lovely crusty bread aswell but decided that was very good for them  :D
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 13, 2011, 17:30
Update -  was back today and this time I saw them.  6 Warrens and the nice toooo tidy run is looking a bit muddy now.  Had a wee chat to them.  They didn't say much, just stared at me as in "who is this weirdo?".   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:   
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 13, 2011, 17:57
Wait till they realise you carry handy supplies of cabbage  ;)  :lol:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Bev on February 13, 2011, 20:27
 ??? I am mad in a slightly different way! I went to say goodnight to my chickens and shut their door just after dark yesterday only to find them roosting on the ramp up to the door. I had only gone and shut their door when I went to give them their kitchen scraps in the afternoon!

Found loads of closet chicken keepers in my village. My sister was doing some research into chicken welfare and campilobacter and wanted poo from chickens kept free range and in small numbers. Well one chicken keeper led to the next and in no time I got about 12 new chicken friends! oh and lots of bags of poo!

Love Bev
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 14, 2011, 18:24
Wait till they realise you carry handy supplies of cabbage  ;)  :lol:

Ha ha only had a box of Thorntons chocolates with me today and they weren't getting any!! Had a new delivery at a farm outside town and was all excited that they might have chickens but only cows.  What a disappointment.  :(
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 14, 2011, 21:24
There you go Jinty - some-one is as mad as you.  You and Bev make a great pair :nowink:  :lol:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Bev on February 15, 2011, 21:40
We also have a mad chicken in our road! She is roosting in a neighbours very overgrown garden at night and wandering up and down the road and hanging around outside the school gates during the day. No one knows whose she is or where she has come from. I keep hoping she will join up with my chickens. People keep asking me if she is one of mine. She does not seem tame and no one is able to catch her so far.

The neighbour's garden has attracted chickens before, he has a funny story about my other neighbours white bantam which escaped when they first got their hens. It walked right in to the house through the cat flap and he didn't notice it roosting on his white oven. The two of them got quite a shock when they met in the semi- dark in the early morning. There was a lot of flapping apparently! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bev

Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 16, 2011, 08:21
That's a brilliant story Bev - I can just picture it  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Try enticing your runaway with food as she does need to be secure at night and have a proper food supply if she is going to survive long term.  Have you got a neighbour who goes fishing and might have a net  :unsure:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: hillfooter on February 16, 2011, 12:15
That's a brilliant story Bev - I can just picture it  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Try enticing your runaway with food as she does need to be secure at night and have a proper food supply if she is going to survive long term.  Have you got a neighbour who goes fishing and might have a net  :unsure:

You could try Captain Birdseye ???
HF
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 16, 2011, 17:15
That's a brilliant story Bev - I can just picture it  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Try enticing your runaway with food as she does need to be secure at night and have a proper food supply if she is going to survive long term.  Have you got a neighbour who goes fishing and might have a net  :unsure:

You could try Captain Birdseye ???
HF

 :nowink:  :lol:

I dunno, I wuz just trying to help  ::)
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Abacus on February 16, 2011, 17:38
We are, obviously, all mad but has anyone gone to the extreme of building a bench in the hen run like me and sitting there watching them - great stress relief therapy!
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: New shoot on February 16, 2011, 18:13
Personally no but I bet you're not alone  ;)  :lol:
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 16, 2011, 18:53
We are, obviously, all mad but has anyone gone to the extreme of building a bench in the hen run like me and sitting there watching them - great stress relief therapy!

Not yet but did sit on back doorstep after work today and watched them scratching around at my feet for 30 mins.  It was funny because I gave them their corn and they ignored it and were saying "come on mum we know youve got mealworms".   :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: NormandyMary on February 16, 2011, 21:19
I quite regularly drive a route that I don't really need to take just to have a look at some local hens roaming an orchard. My friends have now learnt never ever to ask how the hens are as I tend to go on just a wee bit and I start to see the glazed look in their eyes. My mother is excellent in indulging her chatty daughter but just occasionally will hold up her hand and say 'Stop, enough'.

OL
I do exactly the same thing! Infact, in their orchard, they have a couple of such pretty hens, Im going to knock and find out what breed they are and where they for them from. Ill keep my camera in the car, and post a couple of piccies next time I pass the field.
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: ManicMum on February 17, 2011, 22:37
Our chicken-watching chair is kept outside the run so the girls don't apply their own decoration - but it's light plastic so we can lift it in with one hand while holding cup of tea in the other!!
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: Bev on February 18, 2011, 19:42
I take my babys bouncy chair and put it just outside the hen pen. Also made a swing for my 2 year old in the tree but she keeps falling off so need to get a toddler seat or wait a while. That keeps them quiet for a few minutes while I get to enjoy my chickens.

Lara chicken is very good at squeezing through the temporary fence I put up half way down the garden and comes right up to the back door to see us. Unfortunately she can't seem to tell the difference between worms and toddler fingers so I have to go and put her back before toddler will come out into the garden!

Actually Lara has her own garden bench just outside our kitchen window and comes and watches us eating our lunch!

Haven't seen the stray chicken since posting that bit, maybe gone home or met Freddy!

Bev
Title: Re: Is everyone as mad as me?
Post by: jinty1911 on February 18, 2011, 21:36
WHAAHAAA Hubby brought his workmate (a great big macho builder) back this afternoon for a coffe and introduced him to the chicks.  Haha, hubby told his pal to hold his hand out to the chicks but didnt give him anything to put in it. Ha Ha Poor boy got the fright of his live. Pecked to pieces  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: