Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: alisonwo on November 11, 2010, 10:50
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I have found recently getting involved with tv or the computer that I look up and suddenly see how dark it is (getting old and memory going obviously) :mad:, before sprinting down the garden to lock the girls away.
Had a brainwave the other night and decided to use a small alarm clock set for 5pm, and when that goes off in the kitchen it alerts me to sort them out, regardless of what I am doing at the time. I can change the time as the days lengthen or shorten so far its working well. Anyone else got any tips about this ::)
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Ah but my problem would be remembering to set the alarm clock in the first place,,,he he he.
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you could set an alarm on your mobile phone that's what i tend to do if i have something really important to remember
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OH told me off last night because I called the poots into the coop just after 4 >:(
I pointed out the bantams and big girls had gone in and was told he prefers his girls to go in when they wanted >:(
What he really meant was he likes to spend time spoiling them when he gets in from school ::)
And when did they become his poots, I might ask >:(
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my OH loves our poots as well and will often feed them extra treats and have them sitting in his hands - yet the other girls whilst he likes them don't have the same effect on him.
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I've got one like that too!! He has got his rabbits, I've got my girls. But I get up in the morning to let them out and he has already done it cos he likes to see them falling over each other to get out and make a fuss all over him. I get back from work and they have been fed meal worms!! Have said they are a special treat - "Oh I cant help it and they like them" is the reply. :blush:
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My Big Girls put themselves to bed each night and I have just remember to close the door.
The 2 Bantams on the other hand...If I dont get out there to round them up, then its into the Elder tree and I have to get down and into their coop...after 2 months you'd think they would learn >:(
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Hi chickadee good idea about the alarm on my mobile, now where did I put the ruddy thing :mad: alison
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I always forget too ... lucking my daughter in red hot and yells 'chicken alert' as soon as it's dark! Maybe I could hire our her services :)
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My girls put themselves away, but they just can't seem to get the hang of shutting the door behind them! lol :D
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Send her round Haychee sounds like her memory is a lot better than mine. Just sqwelched my way down to the girls and have a dozen drowned rats in my coop, where did all my lovely fluffy bummed girls go !
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I know, isnt it grotty at the mo. I have made a second little run for my girls, under the trampoline, and they love it under there at the mo as it stays much dryer than their regular run. I reckon that come summer it'll be great too as the tramp will provide shade for them.