Something you saw a chicken do that made you stop and say, WHAT The Hell?

[CoopBoots]

Watched a kid throw a pacifier/dummy on the ground where the chickens could get it. It took the chickens at least five minutes of running, pacifier in beak, chasing one another, before realizing it was inedible.

My favorite rooster swallowed a squishy earplug whole and survived.

Lesson: Try really hard not to drop ANYTHING in the velociraptor enclosure

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Watched a kid throw a pacifier/dummy on the ground where the chickens could get it. It took the chickens at least five minutes of running, pacifier in beak, chasing one another, before realizing it was inedible.

My favorite rooster swallowed a squishy earplug whole and survived.

Lesson: Try really hard not to drop ANYTHING in the velociraptor enclosure

Your birds may act like little velociraptors, but I have a Guinea Fowl who looks like one.

 

[The Birb King]

Watched one hen throw up this weird mucus onto the ground then all the others came running over to eat it

 

[LaurenRitz]

One of my original boys got frostbote as a chick. One of his toes fell off and he ate it.

 

[theoldchick]

My rooster likes to sit with the hen while they lay an egg.

 

[bhawk-23]

My hen lays eggs off the perch and then they break and she eats them

Clever girl!! At least it’s not in the nest box teaching the others how to break and eat them?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

He could be getting in touch with his feminine side or, more likely, he knows a great place to relax when he finds it.

Man cave!

 

[alinas2010]

One of my hens jumped off the roosting bar at 9pm, proceeded to somehow navigate down the ramp and onto the coop floor in the dark and went into the corner and started fussing about and throwing bedding everywhere. I went out and placed her back on the roost. About 10pm same thing…I left her in the corner this time wondering if she was starting to go broody. Next morning she was up with the others having breakfast and sure enough there was an egg in the corner she had been sitting in. Must’ve just been determined not to lay from the roost no matter what time it was.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

I had two hens co-parents where they both raised the chicks. It was so adorable. I originally thought that one of them was just trying to lay her eggs in the nesting box that the other hen was in. It was so cute because they were squishing each other. The fertile eggs were in two separate nesting boxes, but it was so annoying because sometimes Phyllis my black Australorp would change nesting boxes, and we would have to transport those fertile eggs back and forth when she would change boxes.

The other hen is a white Plymouth rock and her name is Rose.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

When hatching & raising chicks, in 2 chick raising rooms, one group was 30 days older than their neighbors. Both broody mamas were besties, so I was able to open the little doorway between them, so everyone could mingle. It was amazing to see not only both mama hens lovingly tend to all chicks, but the older chicks would also cover the recent hatchlings with their wings, pretending to be mamas! Wow, they were natural Aunts, Nanas or Big Sisters! This was a mixture of chicken chicks & guinea chicks...it was the most endearing & heartwarming experience I've ever been blessed to witness.

A few of those chicks grew into Roosters & they are so sweet to their hens & often cluck sweetly standing by nest boxes during egg laying times to this day.

I have 3 hens that are great mamas, raising other chicks as well as their own, a Brahma, an EE & a RIR. Here are some pics. See the chicks mothering the younger chicks? Just precious!