MJ's little flock

[ManueB]

Hmmm should I put some bright paint on the logs to help the hens see them?

I think a trail of sunflower seed would be more efficient to help their vision .

 

[MaryJanet]

I had to visit the shops after saying goodnight to the hens. The street looked very pretty with the sun setting in the distance.

 

[BY Bob]

Everyone accounted for. But boy is seven a lot to count when you are flustered!
There was lots of screaming and I saw movement out of the corner of my eye from inside the house. Some kind of echo effect against the house or the trees made me think there were chickens screaming in multiple places.
I rushed out cursing that none of them are tame enough to come to my call (need to remedy that) and convinced that either a fox or a hawk had struck and that there was more than one horribly injured chicken screaming.
I knew it wasn’t Bernie because she was adding to the chaos by shouting loudly from inside the Chicken Palace.
I have no idea what actually happened. It might just have been a really bad argument causing Bernie to lose her temper and run after everyone. Or more likely, one of the littles encountered the fence for the first time.
If the latter that is actually good, but my heart is going pitter patter at quite a rate while they are all peacefully harvesting something they seem to find yummy.
I think maybe Babs now has a slight limp though I may be imagining it as she is the least likely to get into trouble - unless she got as flustered as I did by all the commotion and twisted something.

I need a stiff drink!
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[BY Bob]

How about this one?

Which made me think of this

I thought I had bookmarked another one but I can’t find it right now and I need to recover from my Princesses giving me a heart attack right now. Will look later when I have fully recovered.

My first thought is, why would you do this? Now you can't pluck them of the roost at night.

My second thought was how hard that would have been for poor Gucci.

 

[MaryJanet]

My first thought is, why would you do this? Now you can't pluck them of the roost at night.

My second thought was how hard that would have been for poor Gucci.
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Mary couldn't climb a ladder like that, but Katie and the marauders would make quick work of it. The chickens in the video seemed to have a ground level coop too. It's good to have options.

 

[RoyalChick]

Mary couldn't climb a ladder like that, but Katie and the marauders would make quick work of it. The chickens in the video seemed to have a ground level coop too. It's good to have options.

My guess is they were going up to the tree anyway and they wanted to give them a safer way down.

 

[MaryJanet]

My guess is they were going up to the tree anyway and they wanted to give them a safer way down.

That makes sense. It's something I'd try.

I wonder if the chickens ever used it for climbing down? I bet they continued flying.

 

[BY Bob]

I had to visit the shops after saying goodnight to the hens. The street looked very pretty with the sun setting in the distance.

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That's a cool photo.

 

[LozzyR]

My guess is they were going up to the tree anyway and they wanted to give them a safer way down.

Can’t predators follow them up though?

 

[MaryJanet]

Can’t predators follow them up though?

It's not clear from that video, but it's something I hope the people considered.