More than 200 feral chickens have run wild on an estate leaving a local postman too scared to deliver mail.

The flock was created after a rooster and hen were abandoned by their owners when they left the new-build estate in Diss, Norfolk, earlier this year.

Dozens of chickens and six roosters now roam the residential roads around Ashbrook Meadows, with around ten new chicks said to be born each week.

One resident, who described the chickens as a "nuisance", said the postman was too scared to do his usual round.

His stand-in, who asked not to be named, said: "I have to do this route now because the other postman who would normally do the route is frightened of the chickens."