[bloomer]

finally built the new chicken palace today, tonight go out to check on the teenagers who should have moved into it to find them all hiding as far from it as possible!!!


trying to catch 6 wayward teenage chooks by torchlight to put them to bed is not easy!!!


hope tomorrow is better...

[Mammyshaz]

  are they any relation to the pair of legbars we took? If so we were crawling under the coop for 3or 4 nights trying to capture two squawking, flapping youngsters when they first came to live with us( and by Joe can they squawk! ) Finally they realised how to get back up the ramp that they were coming down every morning 

[Fleecewife]

Given that chickens have a brain the size of a pea, I think they are amazingly clever - after all they can FLY          I've got a brain the size of a melon, but I can't fly 

[bloomer]

yup its my 2 cream legbars that are related to yours mammyshaz and my marans and now also the last of my old flock all given one new chook palace, the old birds went straight in to the new house the 6 teenagers were more challenging...


lets see how they do tonight...

[mentalmilly]

 Been there, done that, got the T shirt

[ellied]

Well after you sorted out my wee problem the big coop is fully operational and housing - one hen who lays in it and sleeps in it in grand style.. 

The CLX chick won't go near the run and still uses the wee chick run at night tho her broodie pal has headed home to the flock and they're all 20 odd packing into the 2 that haven't been treated and aren't that big for the numbers.  A few roost outdoors but now we've had rain they'll surely reclaim the big coop.. If not then when the new shed goes up I may be looking at moving into it myself rather than have it so wasted!

[bloomer]

mine all went to bed fine last night...


if you closed off the other ones you don't want to use then hopefully some more may end up in the painted coop...

[devonlad]

Do Cream Legbars have an extra small brain. We don't have any but my sister in law has a couple in her mixed flock who seem to have confused identities. About 6 months ago she took delivery of a batch of new POL including a couple of Cream Legbars. At about the same time my wife and I found a badly injured baby white dove by the side of the road. With no obvious clue as to where it had come from we picked it up, covered in grazes and with a damaged wing and beak. As we have cats everywhere we took it to her sister to look after, believing it would not survive anyway. A week later "Derek" against all odds was still going strong and snuck out of the box in the shed and moved in with the POLs. six months on Derek lives with the hens, spending his days either perched up in the trees or pecking around like a real chicken. he even sleeps in the hen house on some nights,and is very much part of the flock. The two Cream Legbars, and only those two, seem to think they are doves, they follow Derek everywhere, escaping whenever he flies off and trying to get up in the tree he sits in. on the nights he roosts up in a tree instead of in the hen house the two CLs will not go in to roost with the others and try to get out to roost with him, Very cute of course, but a bit of a pain.