Chicken run!

We're lucky to have a fairly large garden with hedges all around the boundaries and for the most part they are secure so the rabbits and chickens can't escape. I sat in the lounge last Friday lunchtime, feeling all smug because now I am working from home, the chickens can be out most of every day, doing what they want and I don't have to worry about them escaping.....or so I thought......

15 minutes before I needed to go to school, I went outside as usual, shook the pot of meal-worm to bring the chickens back to their house but only Ruby followed me up to the greenhouse. I put her home and listened for Snowy and Mildred then peered over next doors hedge. There they were, just looking at me.  Luckily the neighbours were out so I walked round with the meal-worm, found M and S and herded them back into our garden.  My neighbours must think I am mad.  There I was, walking down the road with two chickens waddling behind me.

All this week I have been trying to block the holes that the chickens have decided they can escape out of but I have felt like I am on Chicken Run. and fell out with my little fluffy friends...

 Today I decided I would make a more permanent barrier to stop them escaping and tied wire sheets to the large holed mesh that they had been getting through. I went in the house, made a cup of tea, sewed a new bag with fab fabric and felt smug. Ahhh.  I listed my new bag and announced that I had made friends with the hens and that the new bag was in their honour.....

...  I opened the window, I shook the box of dried fruit and two chickens waddled to the window, glad to see me. Snowy was missing. She can't have escaped, I thought, she must be in the coop, laying an egg, what a lovely hen...I went outside to find her in between the new and old fencing.....laughing at me! Tomorrow I'm getting serious........