I think my chicken has eloped. Update: Marriage is official!

[jayne]

You watch...... in a few months she will head home with a bunch of chicks, a tattoo and a cigarette hanging from her beak..telling you he has left her and found a young chick to hang with with... but its ok because as soon as he starts crowing she will be off again....because..... its true chicken luv

 

[TinyLittleFarm]

Well, Felicity had her heart broken by Romeo a couple weeks ago, and I'm sure he'll pull the same crap with Daisy. Then I'll have two girls who are just crying and listening to Justin Bieber in the coop squacking about what a jerk he is but omg he is so cute but they just can't believe that he played them like that. Sure, he finds awesome bugs and he let Daisy have the crust of the peanut butter sandwich that I threw in the yard, but it's clear to me that Romeo probably has some little scratch marks of all his conquests on his roost. The scoundrel!

Alice and Maisy will be there cackling about how they knew it all along and they feel bad and everything, but maybe Daisy should learn not to be quite so easy and gullible and they will sit there being all smug while Daisy weeps.

I guess I'll just have to let her have her heart broken and be there for her with some Haagen-Dazs when she comes home in tears. kids. ugh.

 

[TinyLittleFarm]

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And you know who is going to have to take care of all those chicks while she's out partying, right? Mom.

If it gets too bad I'll have to get CPS (Chick Protective Services) involved, I guess.

 

[white01]

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And you know who is going to have to take care of all those chicks while she's out partying, right? Mom.

If it gets too bad I'll have to get CPS (Chick Protective Services) involved, I guess.

To funny CPS hehe

 

[TinyLittleFarm]

Well, my teenage rebel chicken is really giving her parents a rough time. This will be her third night away from home. We have tried.

So as I posted, I went over yesterday morning and couldn't catch her. DS and I went back later in the day and we couldn't even find her or her bad influence boyfriend. We went back yet again last night and tried to catch her for like 45 minutes to no avail. The area is a large wooded area with a nice coop, but LOTS of room for a nimble little chicken to run. It was 100 with high humidity here yesterday and we were both just dripping and gave it up.

Early this afternoon DS and I went back and we found them. After about 20 minutes I caught her! I carried her home lecturing her the whole time about her behavior. I put her in the coop and locked her up while the rest of the flock free ranged in the yard. After a couple of hours, I felt bad about her crying and sqwacking so I let her out to see if she'd stick around. Nope. She high tailed it for the woods. We caught her and put her back in the coop. DD went out to check on her and opened the door and out ran Daisy. She stayed in the yard for a bit, but when we did a head count half an hour later, Daisy was no where to be found. This was nearly dark, and we know where she is, so I just let her be. I didn't have another chase in the hot woods in the dark in me!

So good grief! What do I do? I'll go catch her again tomorrow (dreading it), but if I lock her in the coop all day, the other girls can't get into lay eggs (yay eggs!). Or I guess I could lock up the whole flock, but that seems pretty rotten to punish the whole group for the rebellious actions of one pullet.

 

[urbanfarmer101]

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Please don't tell me they are falling all over themselves in this scandalous manner for a man with a comb over? Just how much older is he?

 

[fl_deb]

small dog crate in chicken run time?



I have laughed so hard, you would have thought I was high on laughing gas!

 

[drumstick diva]

I could use some haagen das just stressing over your girls. I think you must get Daisy to a nunnery, or at least her own dog house and enclosed(top also) run till she comes to her senses. Or maybe you could barter for Romeo and keep him in leg irons so he can't 'take off' and break more hearts.

 

[TinyLittleFarm]

The dog crate is a great idea. I hadn't thought of that!

Miss Daisy needs some serious moral guidance. I'd like to think she has found love, but I think we all know what boys like this are like. Take her out to dinner, find her some bugs, show her around the trees, introduce her to his friends, make all kinds of promises...brings her over to his place where his parents feed them powdered donuts (seriously! good grief) and then BAM! All of a sudden my sweet little girl is riding motorcycles without a helmet and asking the older roosters to buy her beer.

She's certainly furious with me, but I think this situation calls for some tough chicken love.

 

[drumstick diva]

I looooveee "All My Chickens.", there's your book title, or else a series of youtube videoes - if you can catch them in action. You don't need computer generated graphics, anything. This stuff sells.

Then when they are left with a dozen eggs and broken hearts the spin off "Eggs of Our Lives." You have to admit the BYCERS are much more creative than the network and cable guys. And they don't have a bunch of directors and writers who want more money or quit.