the great escape... chicken style

it seems that we may have adopted Houdini's chickens!

bob and wendy keep escaping. they are cheeky little things who keep finding a way out of their pen. granted their pen is nothing special and the fence is only low but we are too poor too afford anything more spectacular at the moment.

we have a fancy house for them which is escape proof but during the day we open the door and let them out into a little fenced off area so they can spread their wings and have a little room to move.

the little area must be becoming too boring for them because they keep jumping out and trying to set out for greener pastures.

wendy is the escape artist and i know when she has got out because i can hear bob, who has been left behind in the pen squawking at her to come back.

she has managed to crawl under the house and out to the front yard. many a time i have opened the front door to find her staring at me with a guilty look in her beady eyes.

on the weekend she got out of the pen and then jumped our side fence (which is only a low fence) and went into the neighbors yard. she was having a field day in their bushes scratching around and doing what chickens do for fun.

and then this morning my neighbor from across the street bought her home, she was over at their house on their driveway!

anybody know any great chicken recpies? because they way wendy is going she may just end up on the dinner plate because she has been either hit by a car or hunted down by the next door neighbours cat for being in its territory!