Life's not fair!

[Icemaiden]

Dear Poultry People,
Our mum reckons you're a knowledgeable lot, so we're turning to you for help. It's come to our attention via the BHWT gallery (on their website) that other hens are allowed into their humans' houses, onto the kitchen worktops to help themselves to titbits and into the lounge to watch TV on the sofa. Apparently they get fed grapes too.

Our mum's really rotten to us. She chases us out if we get as far as the kitchen door mat; she says it's in case we poo on the floor. (That's Attilla's fault- she had an "accident" on the garage floor once...)
We can't remember the last time we had a grape. Today we had to make do with layers' pellets and a cabbage hung on a piece of string. Honestly!

Do you lot know if the BHWT work like the RSPCA but for chickens? Should we be asking them for help?

Yours cluckily,
Heidi, Nadia & Attila the Hen.

 

[rick]

Do you lot know if the BHWT work like the RSPCA but for chickens? Should we be asking them for help?
.

Bok! Bok! Shocking!
You defiantly should. They might organise an emergency drop of grapes and mealworms!
We are not allowed in the house either because we intimidate the dog and, OK, maybe mess the place up a bit as you do!
Let's have a national egg strike!

Solidarity sisters,

Brownie, Blaze and Teabag

 

[valeriebutterley]

Hello fellow chicks, Phyllis Light here.
ATM I am broody so do not go out often. We are allowed in the house as far as the kitchen, where the cats bowl is, but really cannot be bothered with it, it is much more interesting outside, where we can strip the pot plants and bedding of their flowers and leaves.
Humum really shouts at us when we help ourselves to a beak bouquet, and screeches "naughty girls" at us.
She is very threatening and even once grabbed a broom and shooooooed us away.
Can't see the harm in ruining her flowers personally, she is getting very selfish in some ways.

 

[Icemaiden]

Well we took Brownie, Blaze & Teabag's advice and had an egg strike yesterday and when mum let us out, Nadia jumped onto the garden table and had a munch on the pot plants. The marjoram in the herb planter tasted a bit odd; not impressed with that.
We've pooed all over the patio. We're trying to fertilise it in the hope that Dad'll plant us a grapevine, but mum keeps clearing up after us
It really is an uphill struggle!
Thanks for all your support; here's to a "grapes for all" campaign. 12

Heidi, Nadia and Attilla

 

[Icemaiden]

Dear Phyllis,
Out of interest, what does catfood taste like? Does it come in "mealworm flavour"? Should we be demanding that too?
Yours,
Heidi, Attilla and Nadia.

 

[rick]

Hi Comrades, Teabag reporting.
Well we got up this morning determined to take action!
I ran around skwarking protests while Brownie got down to kicking the pellets around. Them suddenly - where's Blaze? Oh no she's laying an egg!
Well Brownie decided the best thing to do was sit on it and, yes you guessed it, layer another.
Well there was no point then so I joined in.
Then we had breakfast and munched on a cabbage while considering our next move.
It won't be long now before the establishment crumbles!
Resolutely,
Teabag

 

[valeriebutterley]

Hello Heidi and co.
cat food comes in two varieties, sloppy and crunchie, love 'em both.
Seems to be mostly fish and meat flavour, not much in it really, mealworm sounds good.
Decided to leave the Ancona eggs, Humum was furious, put them somewhere indoors, in the big yellow plastic chicken, that goes round, I think.
She says I do not deserve to have littlies running around as I cannot concentrate for more than an hour at a time, not like the b....y Pekins who are always broody.
Oh well, I am actually getting fed up with lazing around getting hot and fat. Might snap out of it and lay an egg for a change, wonder if that will bring a smile to her face, she might start calling me "darling girl" again.
All for now, a lot to think about, love, Phyllis.

 

[Icemaiden]

Poor Phyllis. How unreasonable, expecting you to sit on someone else's eggs and then having a strop at you when the novelty wore off. Doesn't your humum realise that there are plants to scratch up and grubs to snatch off your flock mates? Honestly, these humans seem to think we have nothing to do all day but dust bathe...
Only today we've been hard at it. Attilla laid an egg this morning which one of us fancied for breakfast, so then we had to have a good beak cleaning session to make sure mum couldn't work out who was to blame. Then there were some of Heidi's bottom feathers to pull out to decorate the run... We've had to wait ages to get at Her phone too. We should be sound asleep by now; we'll be getting up in about five hours...

On the bright side, we got some melon this week. Melon seeds are our favourite! Better than TV, I'm sure 08

Better get our heads under our wings now. Love to all,
Nadia, Attila & Heidi.