



Oh my....I laughed so hard when I read this this that
I nearly farted! This whole thread has got to be the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. And I really needed this after the last week I’ve had.
But it’s kind of funny....I honestly wondered the same thing myself, but was too embarrassed to ask.
I was out in the chicken’s run about a month ago with my husband, trying to clean up and check the birds over. I had leaned over the ramp so I could peer in to their coop to see if I had missed any of the girls in the nesting boxes. Well, I didn’t realize there was one directly inside the coop, maybe an inch or so to the right of the door opening. It startled me, and I made a noise—not a scream, but maybe more of a grunt? It scared this Australorp, whose backside, of course, was faced in my direction as she was waiting on “her” box to be freed up.
At that exact moment I made this grunting noise, I must have scared her too because she gave a jolt, and then milliseconds later there was this pfffttt noise. RIGHT. IN. MY. FACE. What do I do? I proceed to jerk up, not even considering that my head is
inside the pop door and I crack the backside of my head and neck.
I couldn’t tell you if the chicken’s fart stunk. I couldn’t tell you if there was a puff of air blown into my face as it occurred. It all happened in mere seconds. But I can tell you that I scared several of the other girls in their nesting boxes, and I can tell you that to my husband I must have appeared to be spazzing out; me bedecked in my shortie jean shorts and my knee-high kitty cat rain boots, holding the back of my head, kind of jumping and jerking around while cussing. He asked me what happened. I couldn’t tell him. How do you tell your husband that a chicken farted in your face when you weren’t certain that chickens could even fart? I said nothing, that a chicken scared me.
So thank you. Thank you for affirming that chickens can and do fart, that it was not just me losing my mind. And thank you for the good, much needed laugh