I accidentally got locked in the chicken run!!

[rhondapiper]

We kept our chicks in a small room we've got in the back of the garage that only locks from the outside. Frequently, I'd go in and my partner would lock the door behind me so the dog couldn't open the door and eat the chicks. You see where this is going? I got locked in more than once, and had to yell and bang on stuff until she heard me from way inside the house.

Well, we built a really neat chicken coop, and the entry door has a small door inside it at the top that can be opened to peer in at the chickens, or for additional ventilation. We both went inside the coop and were attaching the hardware cloth to the opening. I had reached through the opening and latched the door from the outside to hold it steady. Luckily, before we had screwed all the hardware cloth on, I realizd my mistake and unlatched it, but it would have been just our luck for the drill battery to die if we had forgotten to unlatch the door.

And, now that I think about it, the door on the run I am putting up has a habit of locking itself. I'll have to fix that!

 

[mjdtexan]

I just have to know, at any time during your lockup with the chickens did you ever feel like laying an egg?

 

[Blackbird]

So I'm not the only one? Can't tell you how many times one of us has gotten locked inside. Now we make sure theres atleast a stick's width between the edge of the door and whatever its being latched onto, that way you can always slip a stick through to get out.

Our chicken house has a clumbersomeness of a door, in the winter snow blows in and melts through the cracks, I've gotten stuck inside because the door froze shut. Not a fun situation.

 

[spook]

Nope, never felt like an egg, but felt like the cat waiting in the window for someone to let me in!

 

[GaNewChick]

Sorry this happened to you! My neighbor years ago decided she was going to get up on the roof of her house in the summer to do something. Can't remember now, but the ladder fell. She was up there 3 1/2 hours waiting on someone to come home. In shorts, on a hot roof, in the middle of a Georgia summer. No one could hear her.

 

[eggsforsale]

Thank you all for making me laugh so hard this morning.

 

[horsejody]

I feel your pain. I was locked in the coop once too. I always close the door behind me when I go in, and lock it from the inside with an eye hook latch so the chickens don't run out. A few months ago when I went to leave the coop, I discovered that it had been locked from the outside. I screamed and hollered. I finally managed to get a window open and climb out. Keep in mind that this is one of those stupid old sliding windows with a crappy latch system that usually requires using 2 screwdrivers to open, and I just had one stick and my carpal tunnel impaired fingers. I crawled out the window and went in to discover DH sitting at the computer. We are both in the habit of making sure the coop is secure when we walk by, so I think he just latched it out of habit. Of course, he denied it. DH is really bad at lying. He gets that deer in the headlights look and then can't look me in the face. I guess that's a good thing because it means he's not well practiced at lying. He once accidentally locked me out of the house in my bare feet in a snow storm. That was fun too.

 

[rocktheflock]

my sister (chickenmum) and i have locked each other in the coops before, but she's a monkey that can squeeze or climb anywhere, and I can step over almost any of our fences, so all we get is being told off by the lockee.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

My DH often suggests I spend the night in the chicken coop.

 

[60ACRES]

Some of us just need to be locked up.