Poultry VTOL

Bear in mind it was pitch black when I went to put the birds away. Which is why the pics are like they are, taken without the aid of vision. So there I was, about to go and shut the birds away when Tracey asked if I shut all the birds away last night as the little grey hen was out first thing. In fact she had been outside of the hen house for the last three mornings. There was only one explanation.

VTOL chicken. She manages to get 8 feet off the ground and perch in the only branch that overhangs the run. In all honesty its probably safer there than in the hen house, and at 23.00 hrs I wasn't about to try and re-educate her.

So there she stayed. Until 06.00 when she was first to the corn.