Dumbest Thing a Chicken Has Ever Done-And Survived?

[whitecra]

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Um how is a chicken gonna get around with no feet? Just curious....

I had one when I was a kid that her feet froze and fell off. She got around just fine. I now have a quail that has no feel. When she hatched her feet didn't work and they feel off and she gets around fine also.
Chris

 

[horsejody]

I used to have a Silkie roo, named Poofhead. One time he ran up to my dog and stuck his head in the dog's mouth. Thankfully, the dog is good with chickens, and he didn't bite down. Unfortunately, Poofhead was one of the victims in a massacre last fall perpetrated by evil neighbor dogs. Not all dogs are created equal when it comes to chickens.

 

[hennypenny9]

We have a drake that hates our dog. He will put his head near the ground and charge Phoebe, our Australian Shepard. Even in the chicken run, he will pace up and down trying to attack her through the fence. He will also charge me if I turn my back on him. Phoebe will ignore him for a long time, and finally growl for a few mintues, then pounce on the stupid drake and put her mouth around his throat! But she has never ever bit down. She has never hurt any of our pets. She will attack coons and possum and such. Here she is, she loves chickens. Not so much ducks.

 

[farmgirlie1031]

One of mine fell into the sheep water tank in the middle of winter. I don't know how he managed to float and also not freeze to death. I brought him in gave him a blow dry, put him under a heat lamp, and a few hours later he acted like nothing happened. To do this he had to fly out of the barn and then fly over a stall wall of an outside stall. Another rooster chose the -20 degree day to rush out of the barn when I opened the door and to fly up to the top of the barn roof and pretend to be a weathervain. He ended up losing a few toes due to frostbite and part of his comb.

 

[FrizzleFreak]

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Um how is a chicken gonna get around with no feet? Just curious....

I had one when I was a kid that her feet froze and fell off. She got around just fine. I now have a quail that has no feel. When she hatched her feet didn't work and they feel off and she gets around fine also.
Chris

She just places her little stubs carefully. also, when she really wants to get going, she does a little hop thing (think crutches, when you break your leg) and she's getting better at flying.

 

[silentrunning]

I was sitting out on our wooden deck and was breaking a piece of stale bread up and throwing it to the RIR's. The one we call Pig was going nuts as usual. A small piece of bread dropped down between two of the boards and Pig made a mad dash and peck for it. She got her beak cought between the two boards and couldn't get it out. I was laughing so hard I couldn't help her. I thought she would pull herself out but she was stuck for at least 30 seconds. Watching her struggle was the closest I have come to wetting myself in a long time. I know this sounds mean but it was just so darned funny.

Doug

Oh yeah - she was fine and wanted more bread.

 

[Chickenmaven]

Our coop has a garage door type of door. Our pullet, Frank, kept flying between the roof of the coop and the opened door, which folds up parallel to the ceiling. This became a problem when DD tried to close the door. Frank's toe got caught in the folding door panels. She screamed. DD screamed! I ran to the rescue. Could not free the bird from the opened door. She was caught where she couldn't be reached. I had to pull the door down into the semi-closed position, raking Frank along the ceiling on the way. She came out of the top of the door, scraped to heck and MISSING A TOE! She bled, oh golly, she bled. I applied pressure for a half hour & she healed up dandy. Frank loves her Mommy, now.

 

[txchickie]

We have a rooster that pretends he's a weathervain, too

During the most recent blizzard we had here about a month ago, all the others were in the coop all cozy and snuggly.....while he sat right smack on top of the garage roof and wouldn't budge

I finally got bundled up and grabbed my broom and stood on my hubby's pickup and knocked him down. He was not too pleased, but at least he's alive

 

[JennsPeeps]

I walked out into the back yard last fall to find the dumb RIR flogging the neighbor's 2 dogs through the flimsy picket fence.

She doens't do it anymore but what a dummy...

 

[Judy]

The hens wait on the garden tool rack near their coop at dusk for me to come tell them to go in. One day, one wouldn't move. I went to pick her up and discovered her leg was hung in the tines of a leaf rake. She must have tried to perch on it.

Now I store the tools business end down....