Behaviors that make you laugh

[ShellyBlanco]

You can set your watch by our 10 RIRS, they are really fun to watch. We feed them at 7:30 a.m. and there is always 1 egg waiting for us. Throughout the day, the girls make a line to lay eggs in the loft and we hear their song. We would like to keep them in the coop until noon, but they are just begging to free range and Mom gives in and lets them out early (Dad usually don't). At 4:30 p.m. several of them will be standing around our back door waiting for their afternoon snack of fruit or veggies. If they don't get a snack, by 6:00 they go to the garden and dig around. At 8:05 one of them starts the ascent to the loft in the coop, by 8:15 everyone is up for bed and we have to move one or two of them off of the top of the door to go into the coop...chicken life, never thought it would be predictable.

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• ShellyBlanco
• Aug 24, 2018

 

[Chickassan]

I love watching my old rooster feed the new arrivals. He will carry food all the way across the yard just to feed the kids having to dodge a gang of greedy hens the whole way. He's gotten smart enough not to make those "iv'e got food" sounds so he dosen't get mobbed.

 

[ShellyBlanco]

I love watching my old rooster feed the new arrivals. He will carry food all the way across the yard just to feed the kids having to dodge a gang of greedy hens the whole way. He's gotten smart enough not to make those "iv'e got food" sounds so he dosen't get mobbed.View attachment 1514899 View attachment 1514900

We don't have a Rooster yet, I'm hoping either our Silver Maran or Australorp is a cockeral. I can't wait to see the dynamics change with a Roo added to my 14 ladies.

 

[cheekiechickie]

We don't have a Rooster yet, I'm hoping either our Silver Maran or Australorp is a cockeral. I can't wait to see the dynamics change with a Roo added to my 14 ladies.

The change is interesting. I had a very dominant hen, and she did not like our new roo for a long time. Now in retirement, she enjoys him keeping the new girls away from her.

 

[Chickassan]

With a good rooster the change is very nice. The hens are more relaxed and just happier overall. With a bad one you will want him gone like yesterday lol! The one in my photos has been the best one I think iv'e ever had, he's good with the hens, loves chicks, keeps everything out of the yard and has never even looked sideways at me. I'd clone him if I could.

We don't have a Rooster yet, I'm hoping either our Silver Maran or Australorp is a cockeral. I can't wait to see the dynamics change with a Roo added to my 14 ladies.

 

[wild chick]

What kind of rooster is he @Chickassan? Sounds like a prize!

 

[CannedMonster]

My cockerel Angus (5 months) loves to show the girls various places where they might like to make a nest.
Unfortunately, all the places he shows them are completely inappropriate

He’s shown them a spot on the deck, on top of a plywood cover for their feeder, right in front of the coops pop door, on the outside top of the nesting boxes on my prefab coop and... (my favorite) the blade cover for the lawn tractor parked in the shed.
He’s ridiculous but he’s turning out to be a good rooster and I love his silly antics

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Love it. When I put the chickens to bed I usually feed them just before. I was doing a head count and a small hen called Donk was missing. She's a professional tree huger so I start searching the trees. I know she isn't far because she came for her dinner. It was when I picked up the bucket that I carry the food in I noticed Donk sitting in the bucket stuffing her face.

That reminds me of the time I found one of my hens trapped inside an upside down plastic milk crate. She had jumped up on the edge and turned it over on herself, trapping herself inside.

 

[Chickassan]

He's a faverolle, this year I hatched four sons from him and only one was a stinker. The only downside to him is he eats a lot for a rooster, he hit a year old and decided to eat.

What kind of rooster is he @Chickassan? Sounds like a prize!