Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - Share your funniest/favourite chicken story

[someusername]

I have four chickens. A few months ago, I gave them a tomato in their run. They were all fighting over it. The one that is lowest in the pecking order, a buff orp, squeezed her head between one of the other's legs and grabbed the tomato. She ran to the corner of the run, dropped the tomato, turned around, and sat on it. The other chickens ran all around trying to find it, then gave up. She got up, and ate her prize.

GOALLLLLLL!!!!!
Score- Buff Orpington 1, Rest of the chickens, 0

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Lol
The score for mine would be:
Straw-1
Viper-0

 

[Phaedra Winters]

In summer 2017, I received a batch of started straight run Rhode Island Reds from my neighbor, we agreed I would keep the hens and I'd send back the roosters. I ended up keeping one of the roosters, so that's to give some background to this. This was my favorite chicken, and I was sitting on the porch watching my chickens and just relaxing, when a mosquito landed on my leg. Before I could swat it off, my rooster, who was on the porch sun bathing next to my chair, jumped up and ate the mosquito right off my leg! My bug protector haha

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Lol

 

[silkiemother]

I have 2 hens named creame and baby,they are so smart,it is a pain.creame who hatched in 2015,has exploited every weakness the run has to offer:small 4 inch holes,the roof,the coop,and the door.when she was two,she decided that she wanted to let her self out instead of waiting for me to come home.now we have three different layers of wire and she found 3 tiny,tiny holes in all three of them and would be out every day in a row for a week.after a week of this happening,I finally decided to see how she was doing this so I picked her up,went around the corner,and watched her do her magic.what I saw her do was find the hole in the first one,squeeze herself into the ting gap between the two layers and repeat with the other two until she was free and in the yard.now my other hen,baby,likes to go out and wait for me to come home...right next to the road.and of course I would have to catch her before she got hit by a car.she did this for a few days and then she would dissapear for an hour for 11 days in total which of course scared me.and we were remodeling our coop at the time and so there was a few tiny holes in her run and she was using them.now on the 12 day,she did not show back up and we a giant rose+ivy bed right next to the run.after ten minutes of searching,I hear this weird,hissing/growling noise,and when I start digging through the bed...I found baby sitting on about 15 eggs.I no longer trust the two of them any more

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

View attachment 1577795 Viper
Despite the name it ISN'T about a snake! I have a RIR who is bloody red and we named her that. She has many pictures of her, but none with her beak.

Okay the story now:
So I'm outside one morning it's about one flashlight beam to all darkness and I have to let the chickens out. She runs out of the coop and sits in a tree. I don't think anything of it. I stepped back and let the other chickens out. I walk to her tree and see what I thought was a snake. I grabbed a baseball bat and ran to the tree. I started smacking at it with the bat. I hear bawk, Bawk, BAWK! She flys out of the tree into my hair dragging a large wad of straw that got wrapped around her foot. She jumps to the ground and starts running, believing she is being chased by a snake. I spent about 20 minutes catching, unwrapping, and calming her down. She hadn't officially earned her name till that day!

The pic doesn't work so here it is:

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Like I said, no beak!

 

[N F C]

In summer 2017, I received a batch of started straight run Rhode Island Reds from my neighbor, we agreed I would keep the hens and I'd send back the roosters. I ended up keeping one of the roosters, so that's to give some background to this. This was my favorite chicken, and I was sitting on the porch watching my chickens and just relaxing, when a mosquito landed on my leg. Before I could swat it off, my rooster, who was on the porch sun bathing next to my chair, jumped up and ate the mosquito right off my leg! My bug protector haha

Just doing his rooster duty of protecting his girl!

 

[RodNTN]

I'll have to think about which story I want to share, my Black Australorp girl "Bibby" has outsmarted me so many different times it's not funny anymore

 

[someusername]

Just doing his rooster duty of protecting his girl!

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