Imagine this: It’s Saturday afternoon and you’re at home, minding you’re own business, when you hear a knock at the door. You open it and find a rather a dishevelled looking woman standing on your doorstep, who promptly asks:
“Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but have you lost a chicken?”
My neighbours must have thought I was a little strange yesterday. The Bloke and I were desperately trying to find the owner of the chicken (that I named Derek – despite the fact that I have now been informed that Derek is actually a girl chicken…) that had appeared suddenly in our back garden and the only way we could think to do so would be to go and knock on the neighbours houses and see if they could give us any information.
As luck would have it, the chicken’s owners had posted a note through one of the doors and so we were able to locate them fairly quickly. They were quite relieved – they had intitially thought that a fox may have eaten it – came round to our house to pick it up and I was actually a little emotional at how delighted Derek (whose real name is actually Amy) was to see them! It is obviously treated very well and ran over, clucking away, which I was really pleased to see…
So, all’s well that ends well – Amy the chicken found it’s home and my neighbours think i’m a weirdo…
Just an average Saturday afternoon in my household!
Suzie Speaks 
yay 😀 i love chickens.
Me too, and this was a really friendly chicken!
And you may have thoroughly confused Derek/Amy, who will demand counseling. Cute post.
Haha! poor thing!
I’m happy to hear Amy is home again. Some hens make sweet pets. I had a Bantam hen when I was a child that would ride around on my shoulder and come when called. You took good care of Amy while she visited you.
I’ve always wanted chickens but hev never had the land… maybe one day!
Hehe… 🙂
I hope you haven’t given that poor hen gender issues!!!!
haha! Poor thing must be traumatised!
It’s been a tough beak for him😉
Don’t start!! You got them all doing it last time 😉
Ha! Ha! Merry Christmas
Haha! You too my lovely!
Thanks chuck
I was going to reply with ‘you too, chicken,’ but didn’t want to encourage you 😉
I think your safe as that will be wasted on our non-Brit friends
Yeah, you’re right… Although up north in Bolton a lot of people say ‘ey up, cocker,’ as a way of affectionately saying hello. That may be taken in totally the wrong way…
That would make for a good post. Go for it LOL
Haha! I’m linking you in when I do!
Tha dunt scare mi lass
Yay for Derek/Amy. You had a Mr. Kipling moment.
haha! I was so pleased it was reunited with it’s owner!
This little story about Derek/Amy has brought a smile to me. Happy to see it end well
Thank you very much!
And still the chicken is not in the pot – a very happy ending for all!
And a very funny story for us!
Haha! Thank you Sharon, as always!
You are very good people, going to that trouble to reunite the chicken with its people! I’m a sucker for a happy ending!