10-04-2008, 11:06 AM
Phil! Wrote:Yeah lovely when there still too young too have developed houdini-like powers of escape...i spent many a day traipsin round the country lookin for the f@ckers that and the fact that they never thought twice too ram ya when ya turned yer back...chickens a lot easierLOL, oh happy memories! Best investment I ever made there was an electric fence. Most twisted fun was getting someone else to test it
It was the rear-up-on-hind-legs-skull-crunching-headbutting-game they would play when first letting them back out to browse in the spring that I found most disturbing.
I actually had more trouble with escaping chickens than goats. I tried clipping one wing, two wings, more fencing, different fencing, higher fencing. In the end I had to give up and the neighbours hated my chickens free ranging round their gardens. Lost the last few to foxes ...