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Help! There's a chicken in our garden

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ejecoms · 06/08/2015 14:54

Our NDNs are on holiday and one of their chickens is in our garden! What should I do? They are meant to have their wings clipped but clearly it has got over the 5ft stone wall between our houses. I don't have their phone no but a mutual friend is trying to contact them.

What should I do? Put it in a box? feed it? Give it water?

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roseteapot101 · 06/08/2015 15:10

lol what a funny thing to find in your garden

there must be someone looking after the chickens i wonder if you could leave a note somewhere saying please call one of your chickens in my garden

CMOTDibbler · 06/08/2015 15:13

It'll go back when it feels like it. Occasionally one of ours will hop the wall, and they always come back

Bakeoffcake · 06/08/2015 15:22

I'd want to put it back because of its left in your garden overnight, a fox might get it.

So if get my dh to catch it -- gently throw a blanket over it then pick it up with the blanket and take it next door.

Fluffy24 · 06/08/2015 15:27

Catch her and if the rest are still in their garden, ie not yet been closed in for the night or having escaped from a supposedly secure hen run then pop her back over the fence, though maybe leave a note for whoever is looking after then so they know.

ejecoms · 06/08/2015 18:55

Thanks! We managed yo get her back over the fence.

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