A chicken has been given a hi-vis jacket by its owner to ensure it stays safe when crossing the road.

The pet bird, called Billie Jean, was kitted out with the luminous vest to make her more easily seen by drivers.

It follows concerns that the rescue chicken was beginning to wander too far away from her home at The Railway Inn, in the village of Cam, Gloucestershire.

Landlady Sharron Brimble said Billie Jean had become a favourite among the pub’s regulars – prompting a spike in jukebox plays of Michael Jackson’s hit song of the same name.

The 60-year-old said: “People do really love her. She’s quite a character. She wanders around the garden, which is a pub garden, so there’s no way we can fence it all off.

“She started going up the path and now goes across into people’s gardens. We started to get a lot of comments from people saying she was going to get hit by a car.”

However, to Ms Brimble’s surprise, she found she was able to order a chicken-sized hi-vis jacket to help ease the concerns.

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