Seems its not as simple as getting chickens, put them in a coop and collect the eggs. within a week of putting them in their enclosure and despite clipping their wings, chook 1 (Startle) had escaped. We found her tapping on the laundry door and on opening it she hopped on in and scurried desperately around the house. What did this silly bird want. I let her wander and she mostly followed me about. I eventually took her back to the coop. Not long after there was a knock on the door. Silly Startle had knocked on the neighbours door, and my lovely neighbour delivered her back to us. Hubby put her back in the coop where she finally in a panic laid an egg. So the story continues as every 3 days we expect poor Startle to lose the plot as she freaks out about laying yet another egg. Cant blame her much, she lays rather large eggs. Problem is the silly thing taught the other 3 how to escape.
So thats 2 laying eggs and about 2 weeks later we now have a 3rd laying eggs.
Add to that, about a week ago i discovered that all four had lice, and it was not a small infestation. I guess thats what you get from having 2nd hand chooks with little history.
So anyway the chickens got a bit of a rep for being roamers. So much so that one kind neighbour turned up at our front door with a chook. Turned out it wasn't ours, but was lovely of him to return it. We raised the fences and had no escapes since. These chickens sure are entertaining. I was never one to think of chickens having much personality but they are proving me wrong.
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