Got chicken stories?

[Megan Amber]

Okey dokey! Give it till this evening then. Most of my friends are night Owls!

 

[The4Chickeneers]

now for my turn...
oh! I know!

So back in either May or June last year I went to check on my chicks. when I looked into their brooder, I saw three of the four chicks in there. I immediately thought, 'what could've happened to our little onyx?(name of chick) Then I heard a peep behind me, and I looked back, only to see my liitle onyx standing, quite pleased with herself, on my kitchen counter!!! Back then I did not know they could fly yet!!! what a shocker!

Thankfully she didn't poop on it...

 

[Megan Amber]

HAHA That is Funny! Gotta go make dinner but I'll be back later with more!!

 

[The4Chickeneers]

ok sure! I am starting up a thread under games, jokes, and fun called the cinnamon game. IT IS SOOOOOOO FUN!! check it out y'all!!!

 

[The4Chickeneers]

ok I've got a funny one. So today I was holding my Plymoth Partridge Rock(PPR), Nutmeg, and I let her perch on my arm.

Suddenly, she decides to flap her wings and climb up onto my shoulder!!!

I'm thinking, ok?, when she decides to climb up onto my NECK

!!! So here's the picture: I've got a happy chicken who's determined to stand on my head on top of me, I'm leaning over trying to keep her off me, while hoping that she doesn't have to go poop, stumbling towards my salted patio, which the chickens aren't supposed to go on. AHHHHHHHHHHh

 

[Megan Amber]

Wowee does that sound chaotic or what!!!

 

[The4Chickeneers]

got anymore?

 

[Megan Amber]

Only to state the fact of what great escape artists chicks and there mommas are. I have a Cochin and her seven little chicks and they have free range of the yard. Practically every day they get out and I have to round them back up just turn around a and see that they are back out again! I have mended every fence, filled in every hole and blocked up every crevice but yet they all still figured out how to get out. I had all but given up when today I turn around the big fat "flightless" Cochin momma was FLYING up over the fence! Of Course, the one place I didn't think of- Up!

 

[The4Chickeneers]

LOLOL!!

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo FUNNY!!!! I also have a cochin who cannot fly very far or high at all the highest she's ever flew is about 6" off the ground and for about 2'. she is so fat and stupid, she wants to fly up on bars that are 4' off the ground, and she has a knack for getting herself "stuck" on a brick 6" off the ground!!!!! oh, the joy

 

[Megan Amber]

But that's why we love them so much!!

So I ave a story but it is kinda funny in a morbid sort of way, and kind of sad and it involves a duck. So I was hatching out a group of ducklings but by the 15th day or so only one of the eggs was still alive.

I didn't want the one future duckling to be sad so.....I put in some chicken eggs to hatch. they were going to hatch right around the same time as the duck! I was so excited!! So duck day came and the little duckling hatched and was super cute and friendly and adorable! I was bonded as her mother and we have named her Duck Lo. She was lonely when I wasn't around and so I couldn't wait for the chicks to hatch!

Finally a few days later Lo had two new chick friends, one bantam and one cochin. She LOVED them and would try to preen them and sat with them and treated them real nice. So they grew up together and eventually moved outside together. When I would let them out walk the little chicks treated Lo like ,of course, there chicken momma and Lo didn't quite get that but she tolerated them. They bugged her and bugged her and I was blind to the fact that slowly they were growing apart.

Well I had just been reading about how duck mothers will punish there chicks for being to greedy by dunking and shaking them underwater. Rough I know but there ducks, they can take it! Well for some reason I didn't put it together that Lo might try to "punish" her babies and one day I went out and sure enough there was a dead chick floating in the water bowl and Lo was looking at me like she wasn't sure what she did wrong! Poor thing! I took the Cochin away and moved him to a different cage but strangely she just disapeared! No sign of snakes, rats, hawks, cats,Nothing! So sad, long story short I have learned to study the behavioral differences in young mothers!