How rude!

[bluer78]

Now I've read plenty of discussions mentioning chickens pecking wounds, so keep wounded chickens away from other chickens..
Well, I took a tumble last weekend and scraped my knee up real good.
That didn't slow me down, I kept my knee wrapped up nice and kept working to get their new coop up as quickly as I could since they were so crowded in the old one....
Well, last night I removed the bandage completely since it's healing nicely and needs to air out now.
I then stepped outside to check on the chickens not even thinking about my wound since I've been around them this whole time anyway!
I was looking in one direction trying to get Smokey to come back over the fence line, when all of a sudden.... OUCH!!! Pepper pecked my scrape
I guess that's the thanks I get for giving them a bigger home

 

[Sally PB]

Payback for eating their eggs, maybe?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

You have to watch them around things like that. They're quick, especially when they see something new or blood. Lol. I hope you're doing ok now.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

My chickens do this, ive now learned i cant leave a cut or scrape exposed when i see then. And they have given me about 15 of those scrapes

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Hope your okay!

 

[bluer78]

It really did happen so fast! I am doing just fine, thank you all. It was funny and agitating at the same time

 

[3KillerBs]

I had a bunch of fire ant bites a while back and had a hen come up, look at me carefully, then neatly and precisely remove the scab off one. I guess she thought it was a bug on my leg.

I wore pants in the coop until the bites were fully healed.

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

Mine try to eat my freckles

 

[alinas2010]

Yep, freckles, scabs, scrapes, the polish on my nails and toes…anything new. They don’t miss a thing

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

I wear boots with bright multicolored polka dots. It distracts from my freckles that they can’t seem to resist.