Are your chickens this chicken?

[lleighmay]

I once caused a "chicken tornado" by opening a new bag of shavings and (gently) starting to sprinkle some on the floor of the coop. Never mind that they see me do this on a regular basis. Chickens were hurtling around inside the coop about 5 feet off the floor- if they got to close to me they would push off with their claws and make a couple more laps. I never worry about the old wives tale of bats getting stuck in your hair but I was afraid I was going to have to come up with a plan for chicken removal.....

 

[shortstaque]

So now 24 hours later, the chickens seem to be back to their "normal" behaviour, wandering between the portable run, the run under the tractor, and the enclosed coop upstairs in the tractor. They are even pecking at the dirt and bugs stuck in the ridges of the windblock that scared them stiff yesterday.

 

[MaryV]

Our four spent their first few months in the garage where my husband was building their coop, so they were completely unfazed by the loud power tools. Him blowing his nose is a different story - even after a year and a half of hearing him do it (think foghorn) they still squawk and flap around like they've never heard it before! Makes me laugh every time!

 

[sourland]

Chickens dislike change. Sometimes something as simple as cleaning the litter in the coop can cause the chickens to be reluctant to enter the coop. Pigeons are even worse about change.

 

[secuono]

Maybe it's the same thing with skidish dogs, they need to be exposed to new things with rewards for them to chill out.

 

[7L Farm]

I guess that's why they call them chicken's. They will come around though.

 

[Ema]

My chickens don't seem to be afraid of much to be honest with you. I can work in the coop with them right there changing things over tossing straw around and they just go about their business. the only thing they do not like is the broom but they tend to attack it. LOL today I left them outside for a bit and then when they came in their coop was all changed around, they quickly went about exploring and jumping from one new roost to the other. an hour later we went back in and my DH came back out laughing cause we had placed DE under the straw and 2 chickens were literally on their backs dust bathing...never seen a chicken on its back and it looks weird....by 7pm when lights off comes around they were all cozied up in the new roost and loving the new found feeding of short flight in their coop...we added tarps to the run too to stop some of the drafty winter winds that are coming and well they were just following us around wondering what we were doing. when we were done they went about their business.

 

[Cavendish Chickens]

We just put up heavy plastic sheeting around, and on top, of our run to protect our chickens from wind, and the soon to be winter, and they hid in the coop the whole time. We could hear our rooster clucking warningly he whole time. It was funny. When we were done stapling the plastic up they came right out to investigate. They actually like it. Except that they can't see through it. While I was stapling one side, our roo was venturing in the run. And since he couldn't see who or what was making the noise, I thought I'd add a little "Ahh" (I got it kind of ahh) and he'd cluck a cluck that sounded like laughter. lol It was great. Then I knocked on the wood beam and he went nuts. But they are not scared of the plastic whatsoever. They enjoy the break from the wind. Next on our to do list... Install our nest box we just put together yesterday, and put a personal heater fan inside the coop for winter warmth. I don't want them to get too cold. We live in north east Ohio, and winter is just around the corner. We have a speckled sussex roo (5 months old) and two leghorns (4 months old - one white, one light brown).

 

[big mami]

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I love the "chicken tornado"!!!