HaydnH Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Install a Chicken Cam on Ethel, I'm sure GoPro do a Chicken mount, they have them for just about everything. Quote
RobPhoboS Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Install a Chicken Cam on Ethel, I'm sure GoPro do a Chicken mount, they have them for just about everything. Just don't confuse it with the C0ck cam. Edited March 18, 2015 by RobPhoboS 1 Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Ha ha, just got home and read all these replies. Some very funny ones! There's no way I could get cameras all along the perimeter walls to monitor young Ethel but I like the idea of her carrying the camera strapped to her back!! Neighbour gets lots of eggs anyway so that won't work to bribe her and I clipped one wing last year but to no avail. I know she couldn't fly but all I can think is that she has some sort of Chicken Run set up going on and is being fired into the air by the other chickens? Really don't want to fall out with my neighbour but I can't cope with constant phone calls either so I think Ethel might have to go to a better place soon Only to a friend's house rather than chicken heaven I should point out. I love that chicken too much to want anything to happen to her. She's got more personality than the rest of my girls put together and she's a luvverly yellow colour to boot Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Sorry Wendy, forgot to say that all my birds roam around the orchard all day but are locked into coops which are inside large wire cages overnight. There's always someone here and so far we've had trouble from a stray ferret but foxes have stayed away. There's always a risk of fox strike with free rangers though but they have such a happy life scratching about all day that I couldn't keep them inside their houses or I'd feel like a battery farmer! Edited March 18, 2015 by twobears Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 I will try if she keeps still long enough! Every time I go out to the orchard she runs up and jumps around my legs asking for mealworms. I let her stick her beak into the tub because she's my special chicken, ha ha Quote
Payco Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Change your phone number and don't tell your neighbour.. Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Weirdly, that is what I am doing because I've just had a new dish thingy put up and will be ditching my BT line as of next week She's still got my mobile though and a key to my house so I can run but I can't hide Quote
Payco Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Simples, block her on your mobile and ask for the key back. Unless you are too chicken to ask !!! Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Just realised I haven't answered the fencing question either! I've got post and rails along two edges with chicken wire stapled on and on the other sides I have wire stock fencing, again with chicken wire stapled on. I've raised the height of the fence but that didn't make any difference to Ethel, even when her wing(s) were clipped. She's not been out of the orchard all day today but I am keeping an eye on the little menace in case she makes a break for it Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Enough already Payco!!! I'm getting eggsasperated with you now 'cos you just aren't taking my ASBO chicken problem seriously Quote
Zedd Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Yeah but if you ignore your neighbour, poor Ethel might end up MIA.....and your neighbour ends up coincidently having a roast that night. Just sayin! Quote
Payco Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Maybe she's been on the forum and seen all the debate about her and has come to her senses. Sounds like a smart bird to me.. Keep us updated on the story... 1 Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 I know that Ethel might fall victim to the dog and I really don't want that to happen but I doubt my neighbour could bring herself to serve Ethel up for her own dinner because she's told me that she 'loves' her. That's the daft thing, she encourages her into the garden but moans when she comes in of her own accord. I did ask her to stop feeding her but she says that she likes to see her. Argh!! Quote
Payco Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Have you thought about fencing the neighbour in instead of Ethel ?. Quote
Zedd Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Electrify the fence, stops the neighbour getting to close and Ethel will think twice about straying haha Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Ha ha, the neighbour has to stay free range I'm afraid and if I electrified the fence that would be Ethel fried into nuggets from the get go Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Off to walk my dogs up the village now but if I see my neighbour out and about I might just have to point her in the direction of this thread - after carefully editing out the bit where I called her batty 1 Quote
350zedd Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 If they perch on the top of the fence before hopping over, try extending the height of the chicken wire above the posts so that its all floppy. The instability should throw them off. Quote
HaydnH Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 If Ethel needs a good home I'd gladly offer her one. I have a lovely minture house in my Kitchen, it's very sturdyily made out of steel, has central heating and even has a clock built in! 4 Quote
Dashurik Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Is it organic chicken? Ill buy it half the Tesco price.....protein protein protein .. 1 Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Ethel says thank you kindly for all your re-homing offers but she'd rather stay here with me Quote
Ricey Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 For me Annie the neighbour is almost certainly; - old and or retired - bored - probably a bit mental If she hated chickens I'd say you've got to sort it out. The fact that she loves the little bugger suggests to me that she's one of those people who will be going to bed satisfied with a hard days moaning but in actuality has bog all to moan about. So yes I think she is being unreasonable in this specific instance.......regardless you've got to try and keep her in though otherwise she might go full bonkers and you'll see her wearing Ethel as a headpiece 2 Quote
twobears Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Ha ha Ricey, you must know her Yes, she is old, retired and I think she is probably bored but she's not really bonkers. She does love to complain and she moans about everything under the sun, not just Ethel's misadventures. I actually get on with her very well but someone once told me that she reminded them of a mosquito because she made a constant whining noise She loves animals (her late husband was a vet) and, like me, she takes in waifs and strays if no-one else wants them so I'm pretty sure Ethel's plumage won't go towards making the neighbour a fascinator! Quote
ilogikal1 Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 For me Annie the neighbour is almost certainly; - old and or retired - bored - probably a bit mental If she hated chickens I'd say you've got to sort it out. The fact that she loves the little bugger suggests to me that she's one of those people who will be going to bed satisfied with a hard days moaning but in actuality has bog all to moan about. So yes I think she is being unreasonable in this specific instance.......regardless you've got to try and keep her in though otherwise she might go full bonkers and you'll see her wearing Ethel as a headpiece Either that or she's just lonely and wants any excuse to interact with another living person, say the only neighbour for miles for example. Just a thought. 1 Quote
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