[feldar]

What a night!!
Yesterday evening i decided to put my chooks in a different pen because i was going to spray and clean their regular house . I thought this one was fox proof how wrong was i.
Last night about 2.30 i was woken by my hubby yelling and shouting out our window. When i finished having a minor heartattack he yelled as he flew down the stairs FOXXXXX
We ran outside and the dogs ran out with us, my hubby still yelling as we got to the coup, foxy had gone of course it was then i realised my hubby was buck naked with only his wellies on!! ( very brave seeing as our collie bitch has a tendency to jump up and nip at her dangly toys!) a bit caught up with my chooks, i heared him muttering about gun cabinet key and smoky stick as he poked at bushes with a stick to make sure fox had really gone.
It was only when i thought we had better move the girls back to their original house that he went and put some pants on. God alone what my elderly nieghbour must have thought, i know they think we are a bit touched anyway when we are out all night lambing. So this latest episode just confirms our downwards slide into madness.
Anyway one of the girls has a chunk of skin missing from her breast so she is being spoilt today and the rest are a bit spooky and nervous.
I went back to bed and had a restless night with bouts of indigestion ; hubby snored his head off.....
Now i'm thinking one of those naked greek god statues would look really good at the bottom of my garden...... do you think it might frighten the fox???

[HappyHippy]

 
Sooooo funny 
I'm glad your chickens are okay.

[faith0504]

Im so glad your birds survived there ordeal,

I am chuckling away at your story its so funny, what visions i have going round my head 

[Sandy]

  , I would loved to have been your neighbour and had a good laugh, I do that sort of thing. I put a type of scare crow in my garden when we first moved, I stuffed a pair of jeans, a jacket, attatched a football with hat on and gloves and put it into wellies, the only thing it frightened was me, I often jumped when I saw it so off it went.

I worked in a community for people with learning dif, and one day I was working in another unit and across the green came a young lady with not a stich on but some ones old waterproof jacket, too big and flapping about and some huge wellies!!!!! Bless her, she wanted me to give her a bath!!!!!

  ;DAnyway, it MUST have been a warm night  

[Fleecewife]

Brilliant  and you saved the hens     I LOVE the idea of a naked Greek God in my garden 

[sabrina]

You Paint quite a picture 

[SallyintNorth]

So glad you saved the hens - and very glad it was a warm night!   

I've had a lot of chuckles - and some guffaws - from this forum today : TAS is definitely good for you!   

[Rosemary]

 

[shearling]

Loved the vision - glad the chooks are ok - what colour were the wellies ?  

[Hatty]

Will you paint wellies on the statue? 

[littlemisspiggy!]

 

i must say it must be nice that seeing your hubby naked in the garden made you think of a greek god!..lucky you   if i saw mine i'm not sure what id be inspired to put in the garden!..maybe a beanpole or a flagpole! he could hide behind either one!!lucky sod..

[tizaala]

How about one of Dell Boy's inflatable women on permanent duty next to the chooks. ....Now that would get the neighbours running for cover.

[feldar]

My God what a warped sense of humour we all have!! poor hubby I've ribbed him about it all day and my Mum nearly choked on her lunch!
His wellies are black, lucky they weren't my pink ones or i might have taken a picture, but i don't think you are all ready for that vision.
Chooks are fine my poor girl is very stiff and sore, i've got to keep an eye out for infection, and to top it all today we had a lamb with bad fly strike all over her back. It never stops does it,  something always comes and bites you on the ass ( sorry hubby!!)

[doganjo]

 

Hope he doesn't read the drivel we sometimes write on here   

Sorry about the lamb!   Damn flies!

[plumseverywhere]

Brilliant story!!!  Made me giggle as we alway shout "Foooooooooox..." as we leg it into the garden too!  not sure our neighbours would ever recover seeing my OH naked tho 

I've noticed this about fly strike...it only happens when you already have loads on yoru plate to deal with! we had a bad fly strike on a lamb a few weeks ago, same time as my goat was poorly and our cat got run over. fate is cruel sometimes! hope the lamb is ok and also the little chicken with a lump bitten out x