How did your flock annoy you today?

[TheChickenGirl16]

Nice to know. One hen, Nubia an Australorp , in particular let’s us pick her up freely. She’s never seen fighting. Honestly she just breezes around the yard. I think she’s the head hen. Seriously no one challenges her. I think #2 is our Brahma Sweet Baby. She is seen bothering other chickens not the other way around. Her name should have been Big Baby or Mean Baby or even that Heifer.

Love it

 

[Appalachickens]

When my girls were all still chicks, the cream leg bar had a bad habit of jumping onto my back or head whenever she could. That stopped when she got bigger. But yesterday I went out to fill their feeder, and I suddenly felt a bird land on my back. I turned around and Peg was staring at me from my back with her little bouffant bobbing, clearly tickled with herself.

 

[GApeachmama]

Do this isn’t an annoyance thing. This is an amazement happy thing. So sweet Buffy who swore off people after the tail incident let my friend’s daughter pick her up! It’s the first time since May/June/July that she’s willingly let anyone pick her up. I’m so happy. I hope this is the sign of a new direction.

 

[KtheChickenGal]

Refused to step outside into 1 inch of snow.

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

Do this isn’t an annoyance thing. This is an amazement happy thing. So sweet Buffy who swore off people after the tail incident let my friend’s daughter pick her up! It’s the first time since May/June/July that she’s willingly let anyone pick her up. I’m so happy. I hope this is the sign of a new direction. View attachment 4248856View attachment 4248857

She’s beautiful!!

 

[Echelontheory101]

I have 11 that are DAYS away from transitioning outside full time and theyre driving me nuts in the brooder its supposed to snow on Tuesday so theyre going out Wednesday when it gets a little more mild and even Wednesday is like 3 full weeks earlier than I originally planned haha

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Every two weeks I get 3 eggs kicked out of the laying boxes and then buried in the deep litter (that honestly isn't deep enough yet, so I can still find the eggs) which I am trying to start in preparation for winter. I think they've caught on that wet and dirty eggs get smashed and they get to eat them because at that point bacteria must've gotten into the egg...

 

[Appalachickens]

Every two weeks I get 3 eggs kicked out of the laying boxes and then buried in the deep litter (that honestly isn't deep enough yet, so I can still find the eggs) which I am trying to start in preparation for winter. I think they've caught on that wet and dirty eggs get smashed and they get to eat them because at that point bacteria must've gotten into the egg...

Are the eggs cracked or just dirty? I don't worry about them being dirty if they are intact, I just make sure to wash them before I use them. I have a couple who like to lay their eggs in the bedding, but so far they aren't breaking them. The rest use the nesting boxes.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Are the eggs cracked or just dirty? I don't worry about them being dirty if they are intact, I just make sure to wash them before I use them. I have a couple who like to lay their eggs in the bedding, but so far they aren't breaking them. The rest use the nesting boxes.

Never cracked, my chickens won't leave the calcium alone!
While I'm partially sure it'd be okay for consumption, honestly they were too gross for me and we already get more than enough eggs for just two people. They go nuts over the smashed and I don't have to deal with it, that's a win-win in my books.

 

[Ext 918]

We're getting rain..lots of it. The run is 3/4 covered with a tarp. The quarter of the run that is open is absolutely saturated with water. An hour ago, it began puddling. Every hen decided to try her hand at being a duck. Instead of staying in the dry areas where the roost, food, nesting boxes, waterer, etc are... They went for a synchronized splash fest. Now I have a flock of soaking wet bedraggled, complaining hens.