Chicken Shaming!

[andreanar]

My name is Missy. I've decided I don't like having little ones around. View attachment 1136004So I walked up behind one and pulled this whole clump of feathers off her butt! If you look I have feather fluff stuck in my beak.

Shame on you, Missy!

 

[21hens-incharge]

OH Missy! For shame!

 

[Dayrel]

I have explained the crock pot and how it works to mine...... Laying went up 20%.....just saying.

You scared the cockerel so bad he started laying?

 

[21hens-incharge]

No lol no boys in my coops.... Just lazy girls living the good life.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I like to go "chick bowling."
I wait till the youngest of the flock gather in a group scratching in relative safety.
Without warning or noise I run full speed into the group and watch them scatter!
It earned me the moniker B*tch Pudding.

 

[andreanar]

Just wanting to show this big Australorp girl! Look at that comb! Those wattles! 6 months and not laying....she needs to be shamed, walking around looking like a full grown up but not caring one bit about giving up the eggs!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I have a BCM I don't think has ever laid an egg. She's over a year now. At one point her comb got real big and her legs had a reddish tint like a male would. Then it went down again.
I recently saw a story about a hen that had damage to one of her ovaries. It stopped producing female hormones so the male hormones took over. Her comb got big and she started crowing.
Makes me wonder about my girl(?) LOL

 

[21hens-incharge]

I had a hamburg that did not lay until 11 months old. At 7 years she stopped laying and shortly thereafter started crowing.

Chickens are weird lol.

 

[Dayrel]

Just wanting to show this big Australorp girl! Look at that comb! Those wattles! 6 months and not laying....she needs to be shamed, walking around looking like a full grown up but not caring one bit about giving up the eggs!

Sorry to hear it. She does look like she's ready. I can't explain why, but my 5 1/2 month old Australorp has been laying for about three weeks now. Her RIR and Barred Rock friends started laying a week earlier and I guess she decided to act like the "big girls".

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

This is my Olive Egger I've been waiting on. At least a month past when I thought she would. Her surprise Bantam friend is also late.