Chicken - It Aint Just Any Old Chicken - Its JANET

Ok........... After me daft post on Friday, I thought I would update ya on the Chicken front....

Ya see, I have always loved chickens, and when I was married and we owned a little plant nursery, I use to keep a few chickens up our land....... had the most amazing cockeral called Colin he was a Polish chicken, black with like a white wig, he was sooooooooo tame....... but I when I got divorced me X got the business and custody of me chickens and I got the kids and the bills and the mortgage ..... lol - but I have still always loved chickens....... and then along came Janet :)



Most of ya probably know that I found a chicken a couple of months ago now, outside our junior school, so I picked it up and tucked it under me arm and with a brood of nippers in tow I bought the chicken home...... Janet had come to live with us...... and oh my, what a joy she has been.....

Ya see, the thing is with this house, or maybe its just me, no matter what pet or animal or stray we have come into our lives, they aint normal, there is always something weird or strange or unusual about whatever lives with me...... that goes for me X husband to lol........ maybe its me, maybe I have vibes that say....... ok weird things of the world..... its a free house at Mels :)......

Anyways...... back to Janet....... ya see, she aint just no normal chicken, she is special........ let me explain....

Every morning when I get up, me first job is to walk down me little garden and open Janets coop....... she has this little house with a run, but I never keep her in there, I just open the door and she has the run of the garden...... so every morning at around 7 I flip flop in me slippers down the garden and open up.... she scurries out and stand next to me looking up....... gods honest truth...... I have to say..... come on then Janet, lets go eat..... so I walk back up the garden and she follows at me heel :) - when I stop she stops when I walk she walks........ so back to the house I go, followed by Janet, in the back door I go, followed by Janet.... yes she just walks in the back door and stands at me feet while I put the kettle on for a cuppa tea and she stares up at me waiting for her breakfast...



Here she is just this morning....... note me pink fluffy slippers lol

This chicken seems to love me with a passion........ I keep telling her that she AINT a dog and that she is a chicken, and she should be out in the garden doing what chickens do best...... but she just wont have it....... she eats out of the cats dishes and she snuggles up with fat cat if he curls up in the basket in the kitchen.......



This is Janet sharing applie pie and a bit of a pork chop with fatcat... :)

Ya see, she dont realise she is a chicken...... she really dont....... if the back door is locked then she just climbs through the catflap....... as I type this blob she is sitting at the foot of this chair.... I wont be surprised if she dont lay her egg at me feet.....



Me cats just take her in their stride....... the minded kids just love her and love that she wanders in and out the house as she likes..... one of me parents came last week to pick up his kids, he had a dog with him, and I was out so he was sitting in the garden when we eventually came in, he was laffing, all alone in the garden like some lunatic...... he said...... Mel you run a mad house, I walked up the garden with the dog, your tail-less cat shot up the garden and through the catflap followed by your fatcat FOLLOWED by YOUR CHICKEN..... I would not of believed it unless I had witnessed it with me own eyes...... he was laffing so hard, when I just said..... I know aint she great lol - only you he said.... why am I not surprised he said lol....

See, when I came in from being out for the morning or day...... Janet can usually be found nestling in the veggie basket....... well its her basket now and the veggies have been put elsewhere......



Janet LOVES rice...... this is plain ole boiled rice, but she much prefers special fried rice from the chinky...... or even better she prefers egg fried rice, but I try not to give her that to often cos it must be liKe eating ya nephews and nieces.... well the egg bit that is.......

Ya see, I have a safety childs gate thingie across me kitchen door, to stop the babies going out into the kitchen..... its one that opens so ya dont have to climb over.....and evenings and weekends without the nippers here obviously the gate is just open....... BUT OH NO..... not now, cos Janet has decided that she would rather explore the rest of the house........ so now we push the gate around... BUT OH NO Janet has worked out how to push or pull the gate open enough for her to squeeze through....... I tell ya, this aint no NORMAL chicken....



I think I LOVE this chicken....... daft right? but I aint bovvered what people think.....

Me matie Wendy (sleddies mum) said on Friday that cos of Janet she has decided it would be nice to keep a few chickens....... she has a well big garden and a huge house....... so chickens they got over the weekend...... with phone calls of....... Mel, how do you get your chicken to be so tame, Mel why dont our chickens come in the house, Mel our cat hates the chicken what should I do, Mel we wanted our chickens to be like Janet........

Well ya see........ me and Janet are different :) Janet like me, DONT run with the crowd..... neither of us be normal LOL........ as you have probably gathered if ya have been a reader of this blob......

Me and Janet are special :)......

Ya see, Friday, I was sitting on the floor helping Ellis (minded nipper) build the happyland track, he LOVES JANET, Ellis is 3..... so we are sitting there and he says....... Mel Janet is watching us...... so I says, she wants to come play Ellis, and with that, she pushed open the safety gate and just walked right in LOL......





Here is Janet having a butchers at what we were doing lol

I felt bad yesterday when we BBQ'd cos I made chicken kebabs, I try and shield her from the realities of life......dont want her to know that we have eaten great auntie Maud, and uncle Fred...... but thats life.......



Janet seemed really interested in the lid of the BBQ lol..

ok...... things Janet loves and does not love to eat.......

Loves..... special fried rice (we order her her own portion from the chinky when we have chinky take-away), pizza (she prefers stuffed crust Texas BBQ), cheese (red leicester, but she likes a bit of stilton), prawns, chips dipped in mayonaise, ham, boiled eggs, lamb stew, burgers(lamb ones), melon, cat food, she LOVES marmite on toast and Special K Breakfast cereal....

Hates .... Banannas, grapes, beef sausages, strawberry jam, custard and the man next door........ this chicken has class lol she can obviously spot a twat tosser of a neighbour from 10 yards lol

When I wear me orange and red flowered docs, she pecks the laces and trys to sit on me feet......... she loves me boots as much as me.........



She has given us one egg a day from about the 3rd day we got her........

Im hoping Janet lives for a long time.......... cos.......... I LOVES ME CHICKEN..... so, IF ever a blokie comes into me life...... it will have to be....... LOVE ME LOVE ME CHICKEN...... we come as a package :).....

So just a light post after me deep post on Friday....... probably bored ya to tears just as much........... but see me face.... does it look like Im bovvered? I think not.....

ps....... me lads noticed yesterday afternoon, that everytime I coughed (got a bit of broncitis) Janet would come running from wherever she was in the garden and would stand infront of me clucking real LOUD and flapping her wings LMFAO..... Tom coughed and nuffin, Jacob coughed and nuffin... as did Emma and Sam, NUFFIN....... I cough and she comes running again and starts with the loud clucking and flapping LMFAO........ she loves me :)

Enuff of the Twaddle for a Monday, cos Im as busy as hell.......

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