Strength in numbers :)

[patandchickens]

Amusing thing I saw while driving this morning, that makes me feel like I am not alone:

There's this teeny little farmette on a corner, probably 4 acres max, previously badly overgrazed by horses but now occupied by some folks I've never met who have some wee shetland ponies and a rabbit in a hutch and some little dogs and so forth. I had no idea they had chickens. But as I was going by (at 55 mph or I would probably have stopped and said hi), I saw this guy standing on his patio with a small dark hen perched on his hand. He was holding her up in front of him, shaking a finger at her and clearly talking to her sternly. My 55-mph lipreading is not good enough to say *what* he was talking to her about, but it seemed to be a lecture of some sort. The chicken was just sitting there, like "yeah, uh huh, sure".

Pat

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

Wish I could have seen that!!

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

Cute story!! I love seeing people interact with their chickens in the same way I do. Substitute in a female and a particularly naughty RIR hen and that could of been me this morning giving my girl a talking to for once again finding her sneaking into the feed barn and getting in a bucket of BOSS.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[CityChook]

Haa haa - scolding her. So we BYCers aren't so insane after all...
Cute story Pat - thanks for sharing.

 

[Junkmanme]

The only one of my chickens that I make a point of "talking to" is my Head Rooster: "Oro Blanco de Gallo".

I always talk to him when I go out to feed and water the chickens. Otherwise, he is prone to attack thinking you are "intruding" on HIS DOMAIN !!!

He has attacked a few times and he got kicked and lectured with a finger pointing at him. (He KNOWS my voice !!! )

(He doesn't "challenge" me anymore..but I feel that I should "acknowledge" to him that I realize that I am in HIS DOMAIN.)

We get along fine and give each other some "room". But after I feed...IF another rooster goes to the feed BEFORE the Hens get there, Ole "Oro Blanco" quickly runs the other roosters away from the feed. He lets them eat after the Hens have drifted away and He has eaten....THEN the other roos can eat.

I think he is a good rooster.........but I talk to him just to "protect myself".

-Junkmanme-

P.S. GOOD STORY !!! I think you should make a point of stopping and visiting with the new people at the little 4 acre farm.