I need you to tell me your funniest chicken fails!! I must crown a winner!!

[Weeg]

We don't have a real floor or walls on our duck coop. I put a tarp down on the floor to maybe keep the moister from the gourd from getting the bedding wet. HORRIBLE idea! Lol! I cleaned it out today, there was standing water under the tarp, and between the bedding and the bottom of the tarp! It was horrible! The worst thing I have ever smelt in my life! Well, our water was frozen, so I couldn't' even wash off the tarp! It smelt so bad! After that my family and to stay 6ft from me because of my smell! I smelt so bad! It was so nasty! Lol!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

We don't have a real floor or walls on our duck coop. I put a tarp down on the floor to maybe keep the moister from the gourd from getting the bedding wet. HORRIBLE idea! Lol! I cleaned it out today, there was standing water under the tarp, and between the bedding and the bottom of the tarp! It was horrible! The worst thing I have ever smelt in my life! Well, our water was frozen, so I couldn't' even wash off the tarp! It smelt so bad! After that my family and to stay 6ft from me because of my smell! I smelt so bad! It was so nasty! Lol!

 

[Weeg]

Exactly! Never use a tarp! Lol! Horrible idea!

 

[FactoryReject]

I have 1... So last week I made a swing for my chickens... I was swinging my rooster and thay jumped up and spurred my toe...

 

[black_cat]

What do you mean by 'fail'?

 

[Weeg]

What do you mean by 'fail'?

Like a mistake, or something that didn't work, resulting in a funny story!

 

[black_cat]

Like a mistake, or something that didn't work, resulting in a funny story!

Ah....does one where my chickens are idiots and THEIR plan doesn't work count?

 

[black_cat]

Ah....does one where my chickens are idiots and THEIR plan doesn't work count?

So the other day, they had completely emptied their feeder. Keeping them in the run while I'm refilling it is a hopeless task, and it's ok because they follow me back in with the food. As you know, it's VERY snowy out. So, because their brains are the size of walnuts, they thought it was a GREAT idea to follow me THROUGH the snow to where I refill the feeder (feed is stored under the porch). However, as soon as they got to the end of the bit of trampled, packed down snow, they realized the error in their ways. Ruth was able to go back into the run, but Poppy, Round Chicken, and Tillie sprinted into the deep snow without a second thought. They then were like 'THIS DISPEASES ME" so they activated helicopter mode and attempted to fly straight out of the snow. They don't know that chickens aren't helicopters, and ended up in various places around the yard. Poppy and Round Chicken wouldn't move after landing in the deep snow 'THIS DISPLEASES ME I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO WALK THANK YOU" and Tillie somehow ended up on the porch? Then thought it was a great idea to fly onto a rock that was also covered in snow? I had to rescue all three of them because they wouldn't walk on their own.

 

[Weeg]

So the other day, they had completely emptied their feeder. Keeping them in the run while I'm refilling it is a hopeless task, and it's ok because they follow me back in with the food. As you know, it's VERY snowy out. So, because their brains are the size of walnuts, they thought it was a GREAT idea to follow me THROUGH the snow to where I refill the feeder (feed is stored under the porch). However, as soon as they got to the end of the bit of trampled, packed down snow, they realized the error in their ways. Ruth was able to go back into the run, but Poppy, Round Chicken, and Tillie sprinted into the deep snow without a second thought. They then were like 'THIS DISPEASES ME" so they activated helicopter mode and attempted to fly straight out of the snow. They don't know that chickens aren't helicopters, and ended up in various places around the yard. Poppy and Round Chicken wouldn't move after landing in the deep snow 'THIS DISPLEASES ME I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO WALK THANK YOU" and Tillie somehow ended up on the porch? Then thought it was a great idea to fly onto a rock that was also covered in snow? I had to rescue all three of them because they wouldn't walk on their own.

That is awesome! I love it!

 

[black_cat]

Another one......
I was TRYING to clean the coop. To do this, I have the large back door of the coop open, with a wheelbarrow to move out old shavings right up against it. My process of cleaning the coop is this:
Remove some old shavings/poop
put old shavings from nesting boxes into coop
put new shavings in boxes
mix together shavings in the coop and add more as needed
I had removed some of the old shavings from the coop, when they teamed up against me- Poppy went in the doorway, where I was trying to take the shavings out of, and Ruth went in the wheelbarrow, where I was trying to put the shavings. So I thought, Ok, I'll just do the nesting boxes. I opened the boxes and Round Chicken was laying an egg! Then I was like, I'll add some new shavings to the coop and maneuver OVER Poppy- and Tillie was on the shavings bag!!! Their coop got cleaned the next day.