Is this true?

[eenie114]

Chances are if I passed out in the coop, Houdini would defend me, the other roosters WOULD try to eat me, and they'd make a nest out of my hair.

Don't worry, you're safe.

Like Chickerdoodle said, probably they'd think you were a lovely roost, and then just walk right over you.

 

[EweSheep]

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[speckledhen]

Seriously, most folks joke about this just to make the point of how very much omnivores chickens really are and how varied their diets can be. They can and do eat most anything at all and are usually willing to take a bite of just about anything once.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Unless it's styrafoam. Then they want to inhale every last little scrap of that.

Watermelon is icky. Styrafoam is yummy. Stupid chickens.

 

[Katydid2011]

I fell asleep in a hammock while my chickens were free-ranging and woke up when they started hopping up on me and pecking. For a moment, it felt like Alfred Hitchock's The Birds. I'm not entirely sure that they wouldn't have eaten me if they'd had the opportunity!

 

[Farmerboy16]

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Unless it's styrafoam. Then they want to inhale every last little scrap of that.

Watermelon is icky. Styrafoam is yummy. Stupid chickens.

Mine loves both, I have tried to hide the styrafoam, but they all aways find it, once I was cleaning the styrafoam hovabator outside, and left it drying on the landing of the deck, came back in about a hour it was 1/5 pecked up!

My chickens always eat the watermelons right through until the paper thin shells are left.

I have fallen asleep outside often, and would find chickens roosting on my lap, and pecking my pants, and sometimes leaving gifts behind.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Yeah, the chickens here think watermelon is EVIL and bad and must not be touched. The guineas and turkeys INHALE it like it is manna from heaven.

The chickens think styrafoam is manna from heaven and must inhale it. The guineas will peck at the styrafoam, then drop it. The turkeys won't touch the styrafoam.

And the turkeys and guineas are supposed to be the stupid ones.

 

[Spookwriter]

Peaches knows....

Chickens are not the nice gently animal people think they are.
Evil, mean little things.

And they most certainly have gotten a few people over the years.
Sleeping near one is asking for real trouble.

The reason people force chickens in the coop at night? It isn't to keep
something from eating the chickens. It's to keep the chickens from eating
something. Namely, me.

Real chickens love the dark...you leave your bedroom window up for fresh
air, ...loose chickens...they're coming in. YOU will be a tasty snack.

Talk to the oldtimers about their chickens. They'll all have a story about the
chickens eating the slowest kids in the family. That was the real point in the
big familys years ago...parents knew the free roaming chickens would get
one or two of the kids. Nothing more dangerous than a whole herd of chickens.

Happened all the time.

I know you think I'm funning you, but one thing about me...I never lie.

Had an Uncle Jean once myself...he had himself a wooden leg. Loved to tell
how it happened...chickens caught him playing in the yard once. They got his
leg before he got to the house.

Me? I make sure never to go to the coop unless I'm carring a club. I'm an old
slow fat guy. I've had to knock the egg outta a chicken a few times.

Listen to the experienced farmer...NEVER turn your back on the chicken.

Left the window down in the car once in the yard. Thought nothing about it.
Started down the road...up came a rooster from the back seat. Had me by the
ear before I knew what was happening. You cain't drive right with a Rhode Island
Red chewing on you ear.

Lesson learned....

Now you all 'fess up and tell Peaches Lee the truth about how dangerous chicken
keeping really is. We might be saving her life here....

Spook

 

[KristyHall]

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oh spook that's mean!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Fine. We have 8 kids on the ground right now, 1 foster kid and are expecting twins in September. The only reason is because the chickens keep eyeballing some of these kids, so I know we'll need to be replacing 'em.