Funny Chicken Stories

[soonerdog]

My mother and grandmother would tell me stories about a rooster they once owned. When my mother and her sister were very small girls they went to visit Uncle Fred. Uncle Fred was known for his chickens. He shared two little game chicks with the girls. They brought them home and raised them in a cardboard box. My mother said her chick grew up to be a rooster, and her little sister's grew up to be a hen. They named the pair Roosevelt and Elenor. Mother said Roosevelt walked the yard with pride. He was better than a good watch dog. One of the neighbors would always come to get vegetables from the garden without asking. While the rooster ruled the yard, the neighbor soon learned to stop getting vegetables without asking. Roosevelt chased her all the way home flogging her.

 

[CarriBrown]

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What a smart girl!

My favorite chicken story is...
I let all my chickens out to free range one day, and although most of them stick around their "yard", the two Barred Rocks are much more adventurous. It didn't take them long to figure out that flies like horse manure, so there they were, down in the arena scratching through fresh piles.
My mare, Star, wants to be friends with everyone. She saw those two chickens and made a bee line for them. Watching Bertha and LaFawndah running with legs and necks outstretched while Star trotted with her nose to the ground was the funniest thing I'd ever seen!! Star thought she had two new stable mates but the chickens were having none of her!
For the next 10 minutes or so, Bertha and LaFawndah did the offended squacking noise at Star, and they haven't ventured that far since!

 

[countryentertainment]

when we first put the chickens in the coop we started having
the chickens go down the ramp from the porch to go
outside. We wanted them to learn to go up the ramp to
go inside so we shut the tall people door and the door
in back to clean the droppings out. Two black chickens
and one white went in no problem and I tossed treats
on the floor of the porch for them, hoping the others
would see and go in. They saw alright, but ran around
to the back door and looked up only to see it wasn't
open, ran to the people door and up two steps only to
discover that was closed too. they ran franticly
around looking at the porch and each of the doors 3
more times before one Buff finally hopped up the
ramp and started eating. The other two Buffs I finally
gave up on and placed them on the ramp near the top,
they finally went in!

 

[chicknmania]

Yesterday we went out to the barn about mid-morning; it was a beautiful sunny day and all our chickens were active and enjoying the sunshine. The radio was on and tuned to a country western station! . This was weird as we had not turned the radio on! Eventually we figued out that the chickens must've turned it on, by climbing on top of it and stepping on the switch! Same thing this morning!. They can reach the radio by flying to the shelf it sits on. We thought about changing the station to something like classical music or acid rock, to see if they still turn it on!

 

[bayouchica]

I've got a 3 year old roo, Pepe`. He's the top roo around here. Although he has 9 hens that have been with him since they were young.He's been going through a mid-life crisis! I have several hens that are almost a year old he's been courting.... Talk about wore out roo!!! He's alll over the property trying to keep everyone happy and to keep my Buff Orp roo away from his women!
Chickens are very entertaining!!!

Miriam

 

[Citychick]

I have some hamburg bantam chicks that are just big enought o start flying and be ornery. Well my daughter who's six was playing with one and it jumped up on her head. She thought this was cool and was trying to show the daycare kids how neat she was. I warned her that chickens aren't particular about where they go...... (you all know where this is headed) She said oh it won't do that, it likes me mommy! Two seconds later I hear a squirt, a scream and she is running for the bathroom and the chick is running for me! I was laughing so hard I couldn't even be sympathetic! I just stripped her down and stuck her in the shower. Hopefully lesson learned!

 

[ella]

Ok, I got some funny pic.s

Here are the girls snuggling up for the night. I call this bulldozing because occationally someone will get pushed right off the roost. Sometimes there will be 3 hens trying to snuggle up under one, they'll lift the one right off her feet!

And here they are eating the snow off my boots. They won't go outside to eat it but they will mob my feet everytime I walk in the coop. It makes it really hard to walk!

Honestly, my chickens make me laugh almost every day. It's what makes them truly great pets.

 

[CarriBrown]

Great pictures, Ella! Mine do the bulldozing, too, but it doesn't look as funny because they are just little bantams. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had fallen off the roost, though!!!

 

[SpottedCrow]

Couple of stories:
This one is about one of my first chickens, Tom Brunanski.
I had her and her brother Jerry Remy outside. Jerry's looking around and scratching. Tom is down on the ground thrashing away...I run outside screaming her name. She gets up and looks disgusted. I only found out later that chickens dustbathe and that's what she was doing. NOT having convulsions. Dumb newbie that I was...
This one is about Slifer the Sky Dragon and Obelisk the Tormentor.
I wasn't feeling well so I was laying down on the couch. I had Slifer and Obelisk in the house and they were watching TV. I fell asleep...I wake up with a weight on my chest. Now, i'm asthmatic and it wasn't that...so I was rather afraid to open my eyes. Then I felt a tugging on the afghan. I turn my head and Slifer's got the blanket in her beak, pulling on it to get my attention. I look up and there is Obelisk on my chest looking straight at my eyes, like "Look at the yummy grapes". Guess they were worried about their mommy.

 

[edbama2]

I brought some of my baby chics out for the first time and put them in the tractor on the upper platform inside. Decided to give them a grape snack to celebrate. The door was open to the outside and when they were running around, they knocked one of the hens out the door. She just stood there looking around. I went to get the camera but, she was back in by the time I got back.