Re: why are my birds so thick???!!!???


"diddy" <diddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jewels" <jools4jesus@xxxxxxxxxxx> composed these thoughts and posted
> them news:Wa9Df.64819$zt1.9209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > A while back when i first got me young pullets I had trouble for a
> > week or so getting the message through how to go up the drop down
> > ladder into the henhouse at night.
> >
> > We dutifully went out each evening, grabbed each one and 'shoved' if
> > up the ramp into the hole leading to their perches. Eventually the
> > penny seemed to drop and all birds got the message - bar one whom we
> > named 'thicko'. For thicko it took about another 5 days or said
> > shoving up ramp. Anyway for about 3 months, they have been dutifully
> > going up into the henhouse to lay [in the nesting boxes] and to go to
> > bed until about 2 weeks ago.
> >
> > It was about 10pm and I was letting dog out for pee and noticed one of
> > the birds roaming around the garden. On closer inspection, there was
> > a hole in the chicken wire - aaah I thought, an escapee. When I put
> > the said chuck back inside the pen, I noticed 'thicko' sitting on top
> > of hen house instead of being tucked up with t'others.
> >
> > Didn't think too much about it just put them both back in.
> >
> > Well [exasperated now] every night since we have thicko out often
> > accompanied by 1-4 of the other birds. Tonight all five of em were
> > out there perched on top of hen house. I could have screamed.
> >
> > I'm worried that if I leave them out, they will literally freeze to
> > death, it's minus figures at the moment. To be honest though I am
> > sick to death of having to keep getting all muddied/pooed up kneeling
> > on ground putting back up pop-hole.
> >
> > What is wrong with these birds? It's freeeeezing and they sit out in
> > the elements instead of their lovely warm snug hen house.
> >
> > Will thicko get so cold, she will eventually put herself to bed or
> > will I find a stiff chicken in the morning?
> >
> > Comments and suggestions desperately required.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jewelsx
> >
> >
> >
>
> Mine , who have been using the hen house for months, suddenly have been
> doing the same thing. It's dark. I close up the hen house. I come out at
> 10pm and check around, and sure enough, there are a couple hens wandering
> around! I now count heads, and take a flashlight and run them down!

Hen psychology, I just don't get it! :-)

Jewelsx


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  • Re: why are my birds so thick???!!!???
    ... >> ramp into the hole leading to their perches. ... >> thicko it took about another 5 days or said shoving up ramp. ... >> accompanied by 1-4 of the other birds. ... >> there perched on top of hen house. ...
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  • Re: why are my birds so thick???!!!???
    ... For thicko it took about another 5 days or said ... > the birds roaming around the garden. ... > of hen house instead of being tucked up with t'others. ... > death, it's minus figures at the moment. ...
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  • Re: why are my birds so thick???!!!???
    ... > ramp into the hole leading to their perches. ... > drop and all birds got the message - bar one whom we named 'thicko'. ... > there perched on top of hen house. ...
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  • why are my birds so thick???!!!???
    ... drop and all birds got the message - bar one whom we named 'thicko'. ... there perched on top of hen house. ... I'm worried that if I leave them out, they will literally freeze to death, ...
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  • Re: why are my birds so thick???!!!???
    ... >>> of hen house instead of being tucked up with t'others. ... >>> Jewelsx ... yourself a steel trap or live trap and see what's coming around. ... Most predators here absolutely can't resist a can of opened ...
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