Wild Wyandottes! What should I do?

[MGG]

@MGG seems to be right about their age looking back now, if so then eggs are soon to come.

Thanks.

 

[MGG]

Thank you!
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Definitely young birds. If/when you catch them you can look at their vents too. Laying hens will have soft moist pink vents, and non layers will have tighter yellowy vents. You can also check to see if they have yellowy fat, a laying hen (or old hen) won't have much fat.

 

[Alyssa-Bee]

I hope you can catch them tomorrow. Hopefully they don't get eaten. Can you just herd them by yourself? I do it all the time. Get two long sticks or poles, hold them out to the sides as far as you can, and herd them in. Then your arms are twice as long. At least just try to catch them tonight and then if nothing else let them out in the morning. I think they just escaped from someone's flock, they either jumped the fence or are the lucky only survivors of a predator attack.

Maybe I could herd them myself... but then I would need permission from my neighbors to be on their property... and my neighbor has a creepy boyfriend who I do NOT want to run into. Tomorrow! I must do it tomarrow!

Definitely young birds. If/when you catch them you can look at their vents too. Laying hens will have soft moist pink vents, and non layers will have tighter yellowy vents. You can also check to see if they have yellowy fat, a laying hen (or old hen) won't have much fat.

Thank you, again! This is REALLY helpful!

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Maybe I could herd them myself... but then I would need permission from my neighbors to be on their property... and my neighbor has a creepy boyfriend who I do NOT want to run into. Tomorrow! I must do it tomarrow!


Thank you, again! This is REALLY helpful!

How creepy is your neighbours boyfriend?

Edit: on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten being the highest.

 

[ILoveBabySilkies]

Maybe I could herd them myself... but then I would need permission from my neighbors to be on their property... and my neighbor has a creepy boyfriend who I do NOT want to run into. Tomorrow! I must do it tomarrow!


Thank you, again! This is REALLY helpful!

Yea we don’t want to mess around with creepy boyfriends.

 

[Alyssa-Bee]

How creepy is your neighbours boyfriend?

Edit: on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten being the highest.

Ummm. 7-8? He is always smoking pot and has such a messed up creepy brain you can barely even understand anything he says. He also killed someone's escaped rabbit pet because he claimed it was eating the garden, and then dropped off the dead rabbit in front of the owner's house. So REALLY messed up and creepy.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Ummm. 7-8? He is always smoking pot and has such a messed up creepy brain you can barely even understand anything he says. He also killed someone's escaped rabbit pet because he claimed it was eating the garden, and then dropped off the dead rabbit in front of the owner's house. So REALLY messed up and creepy.

Oh that’s messed up. You should get those chickens before he kills them.

 

[Alyssa-Bee]

Oh that’s messed up. You should get those chickens before he kills them.

I know .

 

[ILoveBabySilkies]

Ummm. 7-8? He is always smoking pot and has such a messed up creepy brain you can barely even understand anything he says. He also killed someone's escaped rabbit pet because he claimed it was eating the garden, and then dropped off the dead rabbit in front of the owner's house. So REALLY messed up and creepy.

Yea get those chickens before he makes an excuse to kill them.☹

 

[Alyssa-Bee]

Yea get those chickens before he makes an excuse to kill them.☹

If anything they are helping his lawn though, right? Eating all the grubs and grasshoppers... fertilizing the grass...? He probably wouldn't realize that though.