[darkbrowneggs]

If they are not at one door pooping they are at another, though they prefer the one which gives the best view of me 

[goosepimple]

    Now, you're either walking around naked looking like the last chicken in Sainsburys or you're dressed in a panto turkey outfit, either way gets their vote 

[Cactus Jack]

After having a totally free range flock of hens, I decided that as they lived either in my porch or my kitchen that they had to go back in their large enclosure.
They stood in a space of about 10 sq feet when they could have 200 sq metres in their enclosure.
Now no more messy poo walked all over my house.
Two of my hens which live with the pigs and goats think that they are human, or maybe that I'm a very big cock???
They rush to see me and want to preen me non stop, which actually hurts as they try to peck off moles and hairs.....
But two eggs a day and they are forgiven........
One thing I do love though is that all my livestock like me, none of them run away or try to escape.
My Spanish neighbours can't believe it, but they don't respect animals in the way that I feel most uk smallholders do.
Happy animals/birds = happy meat

[Brucklay]

They LOVE you and I find my ducks love patios and possibly not me but their reflection - but I'm sure it's you 

[darkbrowneggs]

The cow got in the kitchen once many years ago 

[Beeducked]

Now one of them looks very much like a goose!


Mine always like the patio best but OH put his foot down (in duck poo) and said we had to fence them in the garden.

[darkbrowneggs]

Yes should have said ducks and geese.  The white crested one is a gander and the grey pied one is the goose.  They were sold weeks and weeks ago, but they keep putting back the date for collecting them. 

[doganjo]

They know you're going to abandon them to their fate very soon 

[darkbrowneggs]

Unless someone buys the crested drakes very soon their fate may well involve a fruit sauce of some description     The geese managed to get past Michaelmas the other week 

[ellied]

My free range chooks spend a lot of time on my back door step or on the patio under the table there when it rains.. I'm embarrassed to have folk using the back door unless they're smallholding folk and understand!

I use the front door for clients and rarely at other times so they haven't worked out to lurk there and long may that last!

I have to say I love them free ranging but I am occasionally very tempted, usually when discovering yet another egg stash I can't date hence can't sell, to make a larger pen for them all and lock them back in it - at least for winter since they won't be doing much roaming anyway..  Would mean what few eggs they do lay being easier to find than hunting under dripping bushes at least!

[Bramblecot]

My free range chooks spend a lot of time on my back door step or on the patio under the table there when it rains.. I'm embarrassed to have folk using the back door unless they're smallholding folk and understand!


I have to say I love them free ranging but I am occasionally very tempted, usually when discovering yet another egg stash I can't date hence can't sell, to make a larger pen for them all and lock them back in it -
Oh I am so glad it is not just me .  Our patio is disgusting however many times I hose off the poo .  And those sneaky girls manage to hide even against the house wall.  But they make me laugh so much with their antics it is worth the mess.

[Pedwardine]

My chooks spend an age at the patio doors. We're chicken TV for them.

[Lesley Silvester]

  Now, you're either walking around naked looking like the last chicken in Sainsburys or you're dressed in a panto turkey outfit, either way gets their vote 

Or could it be anything to do with the corn in your pocket?

The cow got in the kitchen once many years ago 

What's wrong with that? I have a photo of one of my goats at the kitchen sink. Unfortunately, I have no way of getting it off the phone or I'd post it on here.