On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:42:11 +0100, Amy Blanken****p wrote
(in article <Xk0Xj.4417$Kk3.4238@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> "Sally Thompson" <spt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:0001HW.C452446B00FD51C8F0182648@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> However, our back boundary slopes down to a stream, which has a couple
of
>> husband-made bridges over and then just stock fence the other side of
the
>> stream (not our boundary). The bridges are both reached down some
rough
>> steps. Are the hens likely to go down the steps and over the bridges do
>> you
>> think? If they go over to the other bank they can of course then
wander
>> down
>> the opposite bank of the stream, possibly never to be seen again.
>>
>> Sorry for the long posting but I hope I have explained sufficiently.
It
>> is
>> not possible to fence off the stream, nor would we want to.
>
> Depending how far it is from their houses, they probably will cross the
> bridges. But they'll also come back. Chickens aren't looking to
hitchhike
> to Vegas (or Gretna Green) ;-).
I wish I could draw - that conjures up a lovely picture :-) Thanks for
the
advice. However, my not-so-keen-on-keeping hens husband has surprisingly
just offered to put some enviromesh across the bridges which he thinks
would
keep them on our side of the Atlantic. (I think he's softening!) It
isn't
so much whether they come back or not that bothers me - I have found the
hens
I have looked after are brilliant at going to bed - it's just that if they
wander up into the fields beyond, they would be more vulnerable to daytime
foxes.
--
Sally in Shrop****re, UK
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