Topic: Extra chicken!

[RobinOfTheHood]

I've been letting my chickens out into the allotment for the last few weeks, as their run gets into a bit of a state this time of year. They love to forage and scratch about.

When I went to put them back in at roughly 3.45 today I did the usual head count to make sure that my 9 hens and 2 cockerels were all present and correct. Then I did it again, and again. Then once more.

I had 12.  ???  :o

I still have 12, and the extra one is asleep on the floor of the coop while all the others are perching. It looks like a point of lay Warren or Rhode Island red cross. I guess I'll have to go down and ask around in the morning.

Manna from heaven?  ;D

[pumkinlover]

 :-\ Interesting :) Maybe it's re-homed it'self!

[grannyjanny]

You've been adopted ;) ;D.

[kt.]

I have known of people finding stray hens and just chucking them in with others instead of left running around.

[RobinOfTheHood]

Mystery solved, it belongs to a guy whose allotment backs onto mine, he hadn't noticed until I asked him....  :)

[pumkinlover]

Reading your post set my little brain off into dreaming that my 3 light sussex were 5 when we went this morning!! needless to say it was just a dream and there were still 3!

[PaulaB]

Reading your post set my little brain off into dreaming that my 3 light sussex were 5 when we went this morning!! needless to say it was just a dream and there were still 3!

Try having a dream where the chickens are 6ft tall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sparkly]

I had a dream that someone had stolen my chicken coop and all the chickens were roaming around free in the garden trying to escape!  ???

[pumkinlover]

The last two posts sound more like nightmares! :D

[Robert_Brenchley]

A six-foot hen would be like having a six-foot carnivorous dinosaur around. Nightmare is the word!