i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

[pollipazzi]

I hope you have them the treat once they were where you needed them!

they got the treat alright. i am definitely doing something wrong! tonight it went sideways. thelma went in. (i am convinced if louise was just a tiny bit more cooperative my life would be easier). louise would not go in. i tried, but thelma decided to go back out while i was trying to convince louise to join her. then they were both out. took the treat away and said i'd try again in a few minutes. that time i got them both in but it took 40 minutes.
it's doing my head in.

 

[pollipazzi]

it wasn't this hard to get them to go in before! even the little run AND the polytunnel.
i wonder if it's because the weather has been pretty good. but they wouldn't come in during the torrential rain either.

nothing has changed and they are happy out once they are in there. are they just messing with me?

 

[RoyalChick]

it wasn't this hard to get them to go in before! even the little run AND the polytunnel.
i wonder if it's because the weather has been pretty good. but they wouldn't come in during the torrential rain either.

nothing has changed and they are happy out once they are in there. are they just messing with me?

Yes they are just messing with you!
Mine go to roost and then I go out to lock up. As soon as I get there, they all fly off the roost and rush outside. Just a few minutes before they were settling down for the night and then suddenly it is chaos.

 

[pollipazzi]

Yes they are just messing with you!
Mine go to roost and then I go out to lock up. As soon as I get there, they all fly off the roost and rush outside. Just a few minutes before they were settling down for the night and then suddenly it is chaos.

can you remind me where the joy is in having chickens?

 

[pollipazzi]

i hope my neighbour wasn't home because i find myself saying things like:
"the fox will come and eat you up if you don't go in!"

"i'm just trying to help you not die."

"look! thelma is going to eat all the worms and there will be none left for you!"

i have lost the plot.

 

[tlcmurphy]

Sometimes I say “Hawk, Hawk!” and point up to get them running. I’m a bad chicken mom

 

[pollipazzi]

Sometimes I say “Hawk, Hawk!” and point up to get them running. I’m a bad chicken mom

when the torrential rain happened and i was out there soaked through whilst they were ignoring me under the table (and my neighbour heard me. what was she doing outside in the torrential rain anyway?) i was so annoyed that i said "fine. off and go sleep in a tree, i don't care."
i went in the house and they came to the door looking for me. lol! they went in the run for me then.
i think they understand everything we say. lol!

but. that is what my neighbour heard.

 

[pollipazzi]

that one has worked a couple of times.


i'm not proud.