How do you get a chicken off the coup when it’s laying an egg? No this is not a joke. When one of our daughters got home to be told that lunch would be delayed because a chicken was sitting on top of the integral part of her fried egg sandwich she was not best pleased. She rushed out the door armed with an item of footwear and returned a few minutes later saying ‘that’s how you get a chicken off the coup’. When asked how she managed to get the eggs she replied ‘I just belted the side of the basket with the shoe until the chicken decided that it would be best to get off. Now start frying!!’
I guess this is one of those lessons you learn having stood there for a full ten minutes before hand trying to coax the chicken from the roost.