Chicken Behavior The Ignorant Gal's Guide To Things No Sane Person Would Tell You About Chickens

Loved this article! Laughing out loud MANY times throughout! As a newbie at chicken keeping, it has (and continues to be) a complete learning experience with lots of silliness and head scratching going on! Discovering BYC has been the greatest thing ever! And, this author writes a great and amusing story about her chicken adventure! Thanks for sharing your wit and wisdom!

I loved it! The article kept me enthralled to the very end.

I laughed all the way through! People didn't believe me when I told them a hawk went after my hens (we lived in the Los Angeles basin that was rural when I was a child in the '50s, but was definitely suburbia at that time). Luckily I had a witness who looked at me askance until the hawk swooped again!

Hysterical ! Such common behaviors that are truly comical as you’ve written , thank you for the entertainment ?

So amazingly entertaining! If you can’t get a weekly column, just start a book... The world needs truth and laughter!

This post is awesome! I've felt the same way many, many times. You've put most of the horrible, wonderful things that chickens do and they're not for everyone, but they are definitely perfect for weird, fun, animal loving people.

Excellent story telling, good information in a light hearted way

Very well done! The rake IS the most important tool to have!
When my 40 year old daughter comes to our home, she drops her bags at the front door and goes out the back door. She tells me she is watching the chicken channel for awhile.

It was funny and well written. I too, got my seven chicks in May. They are fun to watch and they do have their own personalities. I'm new at raising chickens. It's good that my girls don't know this.

Love the truths and realities you give of chicken owning both good, bad and comical!!! I have never laughed so hard with tears when reading a post on chickens! ?You are a great story teller!
I love having chickens! They truly do have their own personalities and are very animated when interacting with one another! Who needs a tv when you have farm animals to watch and observe all day!!!!!

Fantastic writing style, and kudos for adopting and caring for ”rants”!

Wonderful article full of home truths !! You are a fabulous chicken parent. Well done and thanks fir the laugh!!

Mahalo for offering such a well written funny observation about chickens I have decided to get some this spring and as you said I am trying to find any information I can. It is so nice to see something written with humor. It gives me a better idea what to expect.
Mahalo nui loa
Robin

I agree with the others. You should write a column about chickens. Love this, thank you from another crazy chicken lady!

Awesome stories, you should write a weekly column. We all need to laugh with truth!

I haven't laughed this hard in months!!!! I'm new to the chicken game, so this is terrific. If my Lavender Orpington, Rain, who loves to sun herself falls over "dead", I won't bury her without checking for a pulse first. I've experienced the chicken violence first hand. Every time I reach into their playpen, they're sure I'm bringing them something good to eat. Every single chicken is absolutely committed to getting the first bite of whatever it is I'm giving them. They go from peacefully pecking and scratching around in the grass to looking like they're shopping for 25.00 big screen TV's on Black Friday in about a half a second.

I haven’t laughed this much in quite a bit! Thank you. Also, your YouTube check on the (man dance) has saved me some work/vet check. My roo hasn’t gotten to that stage yet. Now I’ll know he’s not having “epileptic fit”.

This is an exceptionally well written article! It describes some of the numerous follies, and strange happenings that accompany owning chickens for the first time.
It warns you to never underestimate just how clever, cunning and astute chickens can actually be, even if they are a little “touched” (not quite right).
I absolutely loved reading this article! I could see her chickens, and often my own, performing their antics as I read through madwomn’s account.
I think madwomn has missed her calling, if she is not a creative writer of some sort! It’s never too late...
I spent most of the time wiping tears from my eyes because I was laughing so much.
Thank you for giving me a wonderful, unexpected chicken ? interlude this afternoon!
Leslie

Love your detailed descriptions ?

Great article!!