Do you have in Juvenile Delinquents in your flock ? ?

[Tala]

I had a couple of half White Leghorn girls, one roosted on top of the coop instead of inside (but easy enough for me to get her down) the other one, flew up to a low branch of a tree and CLIMBED up as high as she could get. Most nights I gave up and left her there.
Their mama's, pure wLeghorns are well trained and good memebers of the flock. Their kids are delinquent that's for SURE!!!!!

The solution? I sold those biddies!

Somebody else's problem now

(no really, I had to do it -- for reasons OTHER than them refusing to roost in the coop

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[TrystInn]

Oh Gods, yes! I have two of them - a Blue Andalusian and a Silver Gray Dorking. They absolutely refuse to use the coop at night, they roost in the trees some 40 feet up or so. Drives me bonkers! I've doubled the size of the coop, hell I even bought a spare coop - still they prefer the trees. Should I ever catch those two hens I may just pop them in with the Banties so they can't get out of their pen.

That'll learn them!

 

[chickenbottom]

i wouldnt call mine juveniles they would be almost hens (on the 21st of this month) one is a silver laced wyandotte and the other is a golden laced cochin. they just dont listen to me dot ( the wyandotte) she is very yappy and talks talks talks but she wonders so far from the flock i have to run her down and bring her back into the yard. gretta the other one she just doesnt really like me i guess lol. i guess thats what i get for raising them from 24 hours old and buying them 2 months before they were even thougt of lol.

 

[math ace]

they'reHISchickens :

We raised 4 different hatches this year mostly free-ranging and I think all of them go through that stage at one time or another. We refer to the *teenagers*. They stay out late, run around, fly where they aren't supposed to. They drive our dog crazy as she tries to discipline them. Most of them grow out of it, some not soon enough!
We have EEs, orps and marans. They all do it.

We call ours teenagers too. We have 3 age groups - - -

1.) the hens - - good girls
2.) the pol ( 4 - 6 months )- - - TEENAGERS all the way
3.) the chick (up to 3 months) - - -
remind you of 2 years old cause they need you to help them with everything and protect them from everybody.
These dum dums are the ones that insist on perching on top of the water bottles and getting poop in their own water.​

 

[math ace]

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One is called "later" because she is ALWAYS last - - - last to the food, last to leave the coop, last to enter the coop.
She could be a LATE "Chicken Libber"!

 

[math ace]

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This is because the older hens have too much junk in their trunk and can not do all the jumping and flying that the "wild girls" are doing

I have one marans who can fly over the fence - - - - the rest have "too much junk in their trunk". They try and it is funny !

 

[xxSonja]

Yup, Theres 2 in my flock, both young Roo's, 1 Langshan X and 1 Isa Brown. Complete idiots both of them.
They run around the yard randomly together with heads down wings flapping, they refuse to go into the coop Every night and run off in the other direction instead, when they are in the coop they push each other off the end of the roost.
One screams his head off in panic for the first 2mins everytime you pick him up (which i do every day, yet he still does it.. )
They are just so.... Special.

 

[math ace]

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Got to love the " so . . . . special" chickens. One of my hens was a screamer. We named her EXPRESSO because she expressed herself so much. She was the lowest on the pecking order. She is now one of my favorite hens, still dumb as rocks, but my favorite none the less. She follows me around like I am her favorite roo