How many times with visitors, even some other chicken owners, have I heard “what is wrong with that chicken? Is it ok? That doesn’t look right!” To both sun and dust bathing activities!I love sunbathing photos! I’ll have to share some of my favourites. These are wonderful pictures!
I’ve also heard similar reactions to crows on anthills. The crows in Vancouver will sometime do this sort of thing over an active ant hill. The ants will literally take the pests (lice, mites, etc) off of them!
GAAH! 
Oh, I agree on the hilarious point! It had me In stitches to be sure... but at the ‘cow well hung’ comment I just couldn’t stop picturing our herd (Especially poor Gus) scratching their heads and thinking “ummmm, you’re doing it wrong!”
yep... I’m so sensing a book club forming already!I’ve sent an email to hubby with the details of the book as a very subtle Xmas hint.
Might I suggest clipping her stubby wing? I am not a fan of this but maybe that would convince her that flying is not easy.I keep debating the ethics of training Gus like a warhorse, or at least to accidentally nudge unpleasant in-laws off steep cliffs... but he’s just so sweet (when he isn’t storming my chicken housing for snacks!) I have recently encountered some “small issues” with flying chickens. Not just Tailless, but Zip Tie, my flying MEAT bird! I have seen her gain altitude; how, with those stubby wings I do not know... She has now learned that if she flies to the top of the plastic snow fencing and lands on it, with her awesome 8-10lbs of weight, she can drop it enough for her sisters to also manage a jailbreak! Unfortunately this separates them from their cover from Ariel predators, and dry covered run area in rain.
Hopefully this will all settle down once the molting is over, I don’t know what else to say. I don’t think you can increase your flock size much more, or that available roosting space is a pressure. A rooster addition wouldn’t even be a guaranteed fix... she is just right out of sorts.
Aurora is still limping, standing on one leg. If they are eating and Hattie comes by, Aurora quickly skidders away.
However.......
She is back to terrorizing those under her. It started with Sansa at feeding time. She aggressively kept her from food. Then at roosting time she would not let Sansa in the house. She ran Sydney out of the coop 4 times until I went out.
I am back to frustrated. What am I going to do! I have no idea right now.
