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[maple]

He sounds cute. You'll have to post pics. Where's your one thread with all your pics. Have I been missing pics?

 

[ibpboo]

This poor guy didn't even pick a good roosting spot. Was sitting on top of an empty chicky/bunny cage, out in the open
He was going to get cold or eaten.
He;s funny watching me type.

 

[ibpboo]

I can hug him!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=101605&p=16

 

[maple]

cold...oh boo....your so cute. I accidently left a chicken out the other night and we get colder than you and she was cold but ok. What happened was I shut the side door and realized I shut it on my turkey...he happened to be sitting there looking out. ding dong. Anyway, from how my friend set it up, all I have to do is raise and lower the door by a chord and pulley system. It was my fault. I should have looked. But when I let it down and heard gobble gobble gobble and peeked over, all I saw was the turkey trying to stand up and get back in all the way.

whoops. So big turkey butt must have prevented my lil hen from getting in. Thankfully no coyote or loose dog got her even if she is fenced in. There's still weak spots.

 

[maple]

Quote:
You didn't say anything about this comment and I was laughing the whole time waiting.

 

[ibpboo]

Quote:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5454051#p5454051 #174


I was telling Redhen how I used to take mt horse in my room as a teenager, and how once my sister's pony tried to get on my bed with me, so she double dared me to do it again!

 

[NellaBean]

I locked a hen out last night. The night of the "big storm". I locked up the coop and went about my merry way.....went to check on the cochin coop and the rooster pen. Came back around the corner and there is a chicken standing in front of the closed coop door! Whoops. Wonder why she missed night lockup? So I open the door and let her in.....go to the garage and find a very warm egg in a nestbox. Apparently she was in the middle of laying and thats why she missed it. Goober.

Hoarders in an hour! whoooooooo.

 

[ibpboo]

When ever my girls get locked out, they go sleep in the stall.

I have 3 chickens that are sort of wild, and they sleep in the stall rafters. They go nuts if I get them trapped in pen.

 

[ibpboo]

Rooster is sleeping in my arms.

What a sweetie. I am so glad DH found and saved him.
I hope he forever stays sweet!

 

[NellaBean]

2 of my girls decided to skip the walk through the snow back to the coop and to instead stay in the garage. I moved them both back myself. Well, okay, one I flung towards the coop door....she landed outside in the snow and then hopped right in. The BIG Jersey Giant hen sitting on the nest got plucked off and carried inside. i wasn't sure if she maybe was in the middle of laying so I was "more gentle". The RIR went flying LOL.

I had 2 hens that used to sleep in a tree every night. I had bought them as teenager and they were a bit wild...had always free ranged and never been handled. I eventually started knocking them out of the tree at night lockup and then standing guard at the tree. Got 1 converted to a coop girl and the other stayed out in that tree at night by herself for weeks afterwards. A tree covered in ivy is very hard to knock a hen out of. Because of the ivy she was pretty well protected from flying predators (owls). She eventually was "converted" to a coop girl also. The rest of my "kids" are pretty darn good. I don't usually count heads. They either make it in or they don't! After a night or two outside, they are usually the first ones in after that.