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My older brother used to claim that my silkie hen, Frodo, was imprinted on him and would let him hold her no matter what and wouldn't poop on him. I never had the heart to tell him that she couldn't see down (because of her fluff) and just waited it out. It made for some interesting pics...

So my dad was just telling me I needed to check my live trap, because he thought it was triggered. I went outside in the rain and found my 4 year old EE hen inside the fox trap, looking very confused yet happy. Don't know how she escaped the run or how she just wandered into the trap and set it...

@ChickenCowboy02 Lol, just read your signature. I have to text that to my mom!

Someone tried to make small talk with me when I was wearing a shirt that said "I may seem quiet and reserved, but if you mess with my chickens I will break out a level of crazy that will make your nightmares seem like a happy place!" Them: Oh, do you raise chickens? Me: Yeah, I raise them for...

At least there are still some people who listen/have common sense/decency!

Yeah, they also took the $20 safety-break, bell and tagged collar (also had rhinestones and such, because reasons) off of my cat with birth defects and chucked it in the woods because our outdoor cats (They live in our garage with a dog door outside) were being treated "inhumanely". We found out...

When one of my neighbors moved in ( ~2 years before I got chickens) they tried to steal my 1 year old lab/GSD mix. He's an outdoor dog and trained to our underground fence, and wears a shock and an identification/play collar. He knows to stay in the yard, even without collars, and knows he's not...

I got 8 chicks on Saturday because the Theisens near my grandma's house had some Black Australorp pullets and my sister's rooster is gorgeous (really want to breed him). Grandma didn't know about the box in the garage, and I was sworn to secrecy by my parents... So they were without a heat lamp...

Okay. It was summer, right after a heat wave, so that would definitely explain why I'd seen them "urinate". I always figured I missed other times when they peed. My mom is going to laugh at me now, we just had this discussion last week... ETA: I'd like to nominate my own posts as dumb things...

I think in like 4th grade we were taught that all birds only had droppings, and the white color was the urine. I really just assumed chickens could pee after seeing it happen plenty of times, but I never really looked it up to make sure. Google tells me they can't, so now I really don't know...

That's okay. I've had some really embarrassing moments, like when I didn't know chickens could actually pee, not just have it mixed with droppings... Boy was I surprised when one of my hens suddenly felt the urge...

8 weeks ago, I was getting some Cornish cross from the local Theisens, and I usually convince the employees to let me grab my own (especially in the big stock tanks, I'm always terrified they'll trample the babies, and I can catch the chicks I want a lot faster/easier). Well little miss "look at...

When I had a flock of roosters (5 roos, and the hen I thought was a roo) they would run around like a pack of velociraptors. Ran up to anyone in the yard for food. Scared the bejeezus out of everyone from neighbors to the UPS guy. Hilarious... People use our ditch to throw away garbage and tons...

True about my grandma's sense of humor. Last Easter, she found a farm animal sound book (targeted at 1-2 year olds) and said "I used to read this to all of you kids, don't you remember?" Of course none of us did, so we told her we didn't. "I don't know how long I'll be around, but you all used...

So I had picked up 10 Cornish X chicks a few weeks back for a 4H project, before realizing I had the fair in my calendar wrong. Since they aren't going to make it to fair (I will start a new batch soon) I decided that I will have them processed in early May. I then realized I could have a really...

I got a PETA calendar from my mother (Everyone knows I love my animals) and there was a rescue animal on each page. Some were cats/dogs and a few were other animals like rabbits and turkeys. One was a RIR hen (Pip, apparently) with a little text box describing the hen's story. Then there was a...

I used to freak out and wash my hands obsessively after touching a clean chicken. Then two things happened, fair week and working at a daycare. Now I wash my hands every time a kid touches me (gotta love the paranoia that BBP-universal precautions training instills...) but not really all that...

@Rach4 What the people meant was that their dog is afraid of cats, so it couldn't have gone after a chicken... But yeah. @KikisGirls The husband came over and wrote the check the day it happened, and I had given them an itemized bill that detailed everything. The wife came over the next...

I had someone inform me that my breeding Iowa Blue hens were "just chickens", and that you could just purchase any chicken for like, $2. It was after their dog killed 13 of my birds and ripped all the feathers off one of my show-bird's back, and we caught it in the act. Made me even more mad...

I have taken 2 silkie cockerels, a silkie pullet, and a red ranger pullet (all were 15 weeks old) to the daycare where I work part-time to show the kids (after a lesson section on living things and animals). The kids went nuts, and the chickens loved the attention (they were on leash, and I had...