How do your chickens amuse you? Stories Please....

[aimeeinwv]

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That's AWESOME!!! TOO FUNNY! I'm posting another funny below!

 

[aimeeinwv]

When my girls were a little smaller, (still on the front porch in the baby size chicken pen) My husband couldn't find a cover for the feeder we had. So he found something in the house and covered it up. Well, funny thing.. they didn't like the cover over the feeder. Maybe it was "too tall or looked intimidating?" my husband said. It was sticking up pretty high. After I got home, I called him at work and explained the problem. He had used a KFC bucket that was left over from a couple days before. NO wonder they didnt' wanna eat! LOL!!!!!!! He didn't even think of it.. and I'm sure they didn't either but it sure was funnY!!!!!

 

[Catstar68]

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How about when they're running AWAY from you to join the other chickens - nothing funnier than a fluffy butt jet-propelled by two rotating drumsticks!

I love when mine sprint across the yard and get airborne. They fly better than kiwis!

 

[schellie69]

I love watching my bantams run they have such short legs compared to my big girls and the bantams try so hard to keep up with them in case the big girls find the yummy s first.

I love seeing them first thing in the morning when its time for breakfast and love to watch them free range I love listening to them scratch the fallen leaves

 

[WriterofWords]

Hmm how do my chickens amuse me? How long do you have to spend reading? Let's see,, Blue Roo faints when Nugget screams at skunks, I have tree chickens that dive bomb you at times, I have a duck that thinks she's a chicken and is love with a Roo and a Roo that thinks he's a duck and has a crush on a Runner hen. The ladies think Pudster the cat's tail is a big worm and grab it and try to run and then Puddy tries to eat but Nugget steals his mashed taters. My bantam roos try and mate with the big Sisters and never the make the 8 seconds required for the ride,, but they do get drug around a lot because they don't let go of the neck feathers. Big Sissy will step on Cheapers (the little roo who thinks he's a duck) and stand on him with one foot while she eats his food and he screams for help. Usually one of the drakes will come rescue him and chase off Big Sissy. Little Sissy makes Blue Roo fix her nest at least 5 times before she will consent to lay her egg in it, he sits in there and scratches and fluffs and tries it out for an hour for her almost every day while she directs. Puff N Stuff will scoot out on a skinny limb until it bows almost to the ground and then jump off and in the process her sister Fluff N Stuff gets flung off the limb like a feathery cannon ball. When I dig holes they assist me and make sure no worm goes unturned. One will grab a worm and run hell-bent-for leather around the yard being chased by chickens and ducks alike. The tree chickens make us go swimming in the duck pool trying to get them out of the tree while they scream their silly heads off and the roos try and rescue them from us causing us to fall off the step stool that is standing on top of the picnic table with a human moron on it trying to poke hens out of the tree with a rake handle and the other human moron is trying to run for his young life through the top of the tree.
<breath> And that's a tiny little slice of my amusing life.

 

[Peeper7]

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Didn't anyone ever tell you they actually LOVE chicken ---

 

[Peeper7]

I do so love the way they run!

I also have Toulouse geese running loose and some huge turkeys. A young man from the electric company tree trimming service came up to my door, "Ma'am, your birds are attacking me!" About 50 birds "greeted" him. I asked him if he was actually pecked at or flown at, said "No, but I'm a city boy...they chased me out of the yard...I ran from them..."

I told him I would be laughing all day. I said "Don't feel bad...my grandson has a black belt in tai kwon do and ran from them too." I had to keep the birds distracted with scratch while the guys worked.

Something I thought was just so cute yesterday... a just started hen went into the nest box filled with straw. While she was sitting, she was picking up every little piece of straw that was on the perch in front of the nest, and she would throw it backwards over her back in the nest. I've never seen one doing "nestbuilding" behaviors.

 

[baldie]

My Ancona Henry (really shoulda been Henrietta) likes to jump in DH work van. She follows him EVERYWHERE he goes. LOL This was yesterday.

 

[Peeper7]

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YOU should sell tickets!

 

[LynneP]

They are soooooooooooo funny!

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