Got a question about hens

[askyourgran]

I have two hens that come visiting nearly every day. They are quite large, gingery and fat, with webbed feet. I thought hens had scratchy claws. Don't know who they belong to, they arrive through a small access path that runs along the bottom of my garden, but trample over the flower beds. I don't know anything at all about them, what sort of hens are they for a start? Daren't tell MrAsk when they visit because he has designs on them for our next dinner.

[mike11111]

Never look a gift horse in the mouth!

[askyourgran]

LOL left to the old man we'd be dining well tonight mike.

[wildwood]

A chicken with webbed feet???? Have you been at the cooking sherry again? :-)

[boxtops]

If you google, some chickens do have webbed feet, but it's a mistake

[askyourgran]

I couldn't believe it looking at those great webbed feet, they really are chickens/hens though, but big tall fat ginger birds with red wattles wafting about, (Janet Street Porter springs to mind). I'll have to google to see what kind they are. Flattened my flowers though.

[joggerjayne]

They might be ducks.

[Toes]

Very surprised Mr Fox hasn't eaten them! Are you hallucinating?

[askyourgran]

No duck-like features apart from the three webbed toes, and fortunately Mr Fox hasn't visited yet it's usually late autumn nights when I've seen him around. The hens usually appear during the day. I'm getting good at "Come on girls off you go" and herding them back the way they came. Neighbours must think I'm potty if they hear me talking to them.

[NOX]

I had some silkies with webbed feet- it does happen:)

[Eve.]

I love silkies, friends of mine have them and they are gorgeous!

[askyourgran]

I couldn't find anything about webbed feet, these are just run of the mill albeit big hens, not left me any eggs yet. OH said one was a cockerel but it didn't have the tail feathers. I looked up hens earlier the silkies are lovely.

[TWR]

Ask the hens the question, if they dont answer show them a box of Paxo.

[askyourgran]

lol, MrAsk has been looking at them closely, I think he's weighing them up and can literally see them ready roasted on the table with stuffing and cranberry sauce.