How did your flock annoy you today?

[RedwoodCoastChick]

No Duluth. So comfortable. Flattering. Useful. Hammer loop. 15 pockets I believe. Dirt just wipes off so easily.

Agree 100%!!! Duluth overalls have changed my life for all my chicken and garden work. So pretty, so tough, all those truly useful pockets! And now I have two fancy-print ones I wear into town on errands or to farmers markets, festivals, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, etc. and always get compliments...and they do clean up so easily! My jeans are now just for more "formal" occasions. [Glad to be retired, my beloved overalls wouldn't have been OK for my downtown office job. I'm spoiled rotten now.]

 

[GApeachmama]

Oh, do you mean literally a particular egg will change color over time?

I thought you meant the birds will lay increasingly lighter eggs through the season

I know at that the last 2 are ones I pulled from the under same hen. I’m fairly sure about 1 other but sigh I’m clueless overall.

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

View attachment 4247136View attachment 4247137View attachment 4247138View attachment 4247139 I know at that the last 2 are ones I pulled from the under same hen. I’m fairly sure about 1 other but sigh I’m clueless overall.

Oh, okay. So the hen, each of her eggs gets lighter in color
k I understand
Probably just "running out of ink".
Almost looks like they're changing color

 

[GApeachmama]

Oh, okay. So the hen, each of her eggs gets lighter in color
k I understand
Probably just "running out of ink".
Almost looks like they're changing color

Exactly. Then they get darker then start the lightening process over. I’ll do a better job of taking pics for comparison because not only do her eggs vary like that but also all the eggs from various hens seem to lighten after sitting on the counter for a few days. I think I need more sleep.

 

[amarsano]

My chickens love the RentACoop treat dispenser. I'll fill it with pellets, and they'll spend the day pecking the tubes to dispense a "reward".

I refilled this morning, then watched my d'Uccle systematically empty each tube, leave the pellets on the ground in a pile, then walk away...

Thanks, Poppy.

My "special needs" chicken will sit for hours, if I'd let he, on my shoulder, scratching my neck and pooping on me.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

One of our Easter eggers gave me a fat lip today.

I was reaching down to lift her out of the pen and she decided she can get out of the pen perfectly well on her own thankyouverymuch, and she launched herself UP right as I was bending down and she whacked me hard on the mouth. She flew over the edge of the pen and strutted off like she was leading a parade.

My upper lip is swollen and no one is going to believe me when I tell them it's because of a chicken.

"Hey, what happened to your lip?"

"A chicken hit me."

"A chicken bit you?"

"No, a chicken hit me."

"Oh."

 

[GApeachmama]

My Salmon Faverolle and youngest 2 EE persist in behaving as if I’m going to eat them. As usual I remind them that it would be too much work for too little meat.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

My Salmon Faverolle and youngest 2 EE persist in behaving as if I’m going to eat them. As usual I remind them that it would be too much work for too little meat.

I notice this behavior a lot more in chickens at the bottom of the pecking order. The higher ones couldn't be bothered and happily jump all over me.

 

[AnneGirlGG]

My handsome boy Gilbert crowed for the first time yesterday. This morning when we were working around the run, he happily crowed several times. Shirley, my very much a girl OEGB pullet must've decided, "well that looks fun" so she jumped up on a perch and let out a screeching, shrieking, piercing "crow". Everyone else in the run turned to look at what crazy Shirley was doing, and my daughter dissolved into a giggling mess. Ah, Shirley...

 

[GApeachmama]

I notice this behavior a lot more in chickens at the bottom of the pecking order. The higher ones couldn't be bothered and happily jump all over me.

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.