Can your hen actually HURT you?

Hello,

That is a good thought if a hen or rooster can hurt you? I was recently thinking of my age 13, childhood experiences of my rooster. My mom bought for me in a discount store, pet department for easter. We got three chicks and three mallard ducks. NO ONE TOLD US, THAT WHEN THOSE CHICKS GOT BIG THAT THEY WOULD ATTACK. Actually, it was just one LEG HORN ROOSTER, now WHY would a suppliers sell chicks with mean streaks to children knowing that when those chicken grow up that THEY GET MEAN, does that make sense? Why not sell more DORCILE CHICKS TO CHILDREN. especially in the city suburbs.


You know I LOVED AND STILL LOVE THAT LEGHORN ROOSTER; it' all in how you treat you birds, I call him ALEXANDER, REAL LOUD, and he would come to me, i was on the porch, he would fly up to my outstreched arm and I would give him a slice or two of white store bought bread. he loved me that was back in 1968.

ALEXANDER was allowed free range of the whole yard, named after ALEXANDER THE GREAT, don't you know. He wa territorial, he was like a dog chasing everyone out of his space, inclluding my sister who would scream and run away. Well, she made such a ruckus that my DAD went out there with his construction boots on to challenge ALEXANDER to a fight, a grown man picking on a little chicken. WELL, needless to say my DAD got plume tuckered out fighting that ROOSTER and just left him alone after that...

My DAD respected ALEXANDER after that ............ SO WILL YOU CHICKEN HURT YOU? I reckon it depends on how you treat your chickens.

ALSO if your a supplier for easter chicks for sale to children, let's supply a CHILD FRIENDLIER chick.

I still love ALEXANDER to this day and have had many chickens, BUT none like ALEXANDER, I remember it was right before dawn and my dad was eating his breakfast getting ready for construction work and he was reading the newspaper, with smell of bacon and eggs. That's when ALEXANDER started to first CROW, I watched to see my Dad's reacation and he did not even blink an eye, you see I raised my chicks in a aquarium in the living room with cedar chips at first.

WELL, I GUESS SINCE THIS IS MY FIRST POST IT MUST BE MY INTRODUCTION AS WELL, I think I raised over three hundred chickens, few ducks, guineas, ginuea pigs, mice, pigeons, geese and other stuff......

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We have a mean Am. roo who I helped out of an egg and we babied him, but he runs all over the barnyard now trying to claim every hen for himself and is a meany!
A meatie grabbed my hand last week and I had marks for two days and yes, it hurt! I've never had a hen do any damage though.
My daughter has a pretty nice scar on her leg from her Buff Orp roo's well planted spurs. He's the only mean Orp. we've ever had, but he seemed to just have spring fever and got over it when the weather turned hot.
 
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You should go post a proper intro in the New member forum. THen we can give you real hello
 
I have a banty cochin named Porkchop who is pretty evil when not broody...but when she is I stay clear of her.She just isnt big enough to eat so I let her stay, plus she is my Roo's fav lady. She has made my fingernail turn black and blue when I was retrieving eggs and didnt hear her sneak up on me.

I wish she were bigger....she would make a heck of a batch of chicken noodle soup.

My silkie and other banty that are often broody are pretty good though, they get a little snippy and yell but that is about it.
 

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