How should you hold a chicken?

[chickenannie]

The pics in this thread are hilarious! Especially Rooster red with the "baby" and the little sister....

Thanks for getting me to laugh on a bad day!

 

[ams3651]

i think we need a new section for Rooster-red's Rooster Whisper Great Vastness of Knowledge

 

[esjro]

I have a special pair of jeans that I have designated "the chicken jeans." I put them on when I come home from work and am about to go visit the ladies because they like to climb on my lap and poop on me. It is kind of gross putting on poopy jeans, but it is better than having all my pants covered in ****!

 

[ams3651]

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i have a shirt I only wore once before it became my chicken shirt

 

[gritsar]

I know I'll never wear the dress I've been wearing today around my chickens again! Something about the pattern. I've felt like a giant feed bag all day!
I have a nasty little bite on my back that really stings. I never saw it coming.

OT: Which reminds me, am I the only one with chickens that bite rather than peck? Mine bite first, ask questions later.

 

[Blisschick]

I have scars on my hands from one roo that would just stand there, knowing that I wasn't going to hurt him, and bite the snot out of me anyway. If I didn't move fast enough in the manner I had to use to get him, I'd be rewarded by being gouged. You'd think I'd have caught on and wore gloves or something.

 

[gritsar]

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I guess I should amend my question. Mine don't bite outta meanness. They bite things I have on me or in my hands, thinking absolutely everything that has to do with mama must be food. They're food obsessed.

 

[Slike]

Gritsar - my Orpington hen Butters does that. Not out of anger, its just the way she eats... by more or less beating her face into things. Even when she was a chick she did it. All I can say is she LOVES food, haha

 

[Blisschick]

Beating her face into things...

 

[lovemyflock]

My mom said that once the girls start laying, I shouldn't be picking them up anymore...that I could crush their eggs.

Is there a way to safely pick them up once they start laying?