Originally posted by Werric:

Is anyone else having chickens escaping from the hen house? My current set up is dug 4 metres into the ground with stone walls all the way around. The floor level was raised a little so that there are no gaps between the floor and the bottom of the walls. The only way in is via a door with ladders leading down to the ground and of course the whole thing has a roof.

Despite all this there is always at least one little yellow Houdini that manages to escape. Apparently we Vikings are not the only ones who know magic.

My only thought is that somehow a hen lays an egg in a wall or the earth surrounding it and when it hatches the Houdini pops up on the surface. I find it mildly amusing that Chickens can get out of Fort Knox but boars can be kept inside an area surrounded only by that basic pole fence.