PioneerChicks
Naturalist
More like "Pictures & Stories of Our Chickens"! This is a chat thread for both beginner and expert chicken owners. If you want to brag about your favorite chicken or let us sympathized with you for your lost ones. Funny and interesting stories are always welcome. Any pictures of your poultry will be loved!
I'll start us off with one of my favorite stories; when my chickens literally crossed the road!
For weeks our flock of 5 pullets and 1 cockeral had been flying out of the coop and scratching around the backyard. (We tried to clip their wings once, but, not knowing any better, we clipped both their left and right wings. They could still fly just fine and we couldn't re-clip their wings correctly until they molted and grew back their feathers several months later!
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They also liked to climb the woodpile and jump up on the fence that separated the front yard from the back. Whenever they did this we gently pushed them back onto the correct side of the fence.
Well, one rainy day when we were just sitting around the house a member of my family said, "are those our chickens under that tree?" Our whole flock had crossed the street and huddled under the neighbor's trees to escape the drizzle. Who knows why they preferred the neighbor's trees vs. ours, there are some mysteries we will never find the answer too.
Thankfully not many cars go through our neighborhood, and none of the chickens got run over. Because there were only two of us it took us three trips to take all six of the rascals back to the coop. I guess one adventure was enough for them because they never tried to cross the road again.
It reminds me of a funny quote I see around, "I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without getting their motives questioned." Too true! I love that quote.
Anyway, please share some of your own stories! Yes, you can share more then one! But there are two rules, "be nice" and "have fun"!
I'll start us off with one of my favorite stories; when my chickens literally crossed the road!
For weeks our flock of 5 pullets and 1 cockeral had been flying out of the coop and scratching around the backyard. (We tried to clip their wings once, but, not knowing any better, we clipped both their left and right wings. They could still fly just fine and we couldn't re-clip their wings correctly until they molted and grew back their feathers several months later!
)They also liked to climb the woodpile and jump up on the fence that separated the front yard from the back. Whenever they did this we gently pushed them back onto the correct side of the fence.
Well, one rainy day when we were just sitting around the house a member of my family said, "are those our chickens under that tree?" Our whole flock had crossed the street and huddled under the neighbor's trees to escape the drizzle. Who knows why they preferred the neighbor's trees vs. ours, there are some mysteries we will never find the answer too.
Thankfully not many cars go through our neighborhood, and none of the chickens got run over. Because there were only two of us it took us three trips to take all six of the rascals back to the coop. I guess one adventure was enough for them because they never tried to cross the road again.
It reminds me of a funny quote I see around, "I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without getting their motives questioned." Too true! I love that quote.
Anyway, please share some of your own stories! Yes, you can share more then one! But there are two rules, "be nice" and "have fun"!
Let's see to the next story 
