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[Ag2k76]

I have a few Silkie ladies and one Silkie Roo who are very entertaining. One day my daughter was holding her favorite Silkie, Peaches. She did not have a good grip on her which caused Peaches to flap around while squawking. This racket caught the attention of my roo, Noodle, who came charging over all fluffed up like a turkey, scaring the tar out of my daughter who then drops Peaches on the grass and runs. Noodle, still charging full-fluff then leaps and mounts Peaches while she is down. Poor Peaches!!! She just lay on her side stunned, as I think we all were, by what had just happened to her

. I scooped her up and babied her, holding my laughter to avoid her any further humiliation. My daughter and husband on the other hand....

Still makes me chuckle thinking about it.

 

[janelle18]

Our coop has a 4ft tall fence around the run, when I first got my hens this worked just fine for them. I would let them out of the coop in the morning, give them some feed and they would be happy the rest of the day enclosed in their run. One day, my mom let the chickens out early because she was going out and I was not awake yet, only problem was that she didn't feed them. When I got up to go out, I stepped out the door and one of my chickens is standing there looking at my right in the middle of the driveways. Turns out if you don't feed them, they escape. They did this little escaping routine for a couple of days, and we were fine with it because they always go back to the coop at night. Anyways, on about the third day we get a call from our neighbours informing us that a couple of our chickens had made their way into their garage and we sitting on top of the harley's parked in there I believe he exact words were " I don't care if they are over here, but if that chicken ***** on my Harley, it's gunna be soup!". Next day the chickens got their wings clipped and a netting over the part of the run they were escaping from!

 

[nothingbutbirds]

I had wanted silkies for a while, and i knew that chick days were coming up at tractor supply so i got six white silkies from there and got them a brooder ready in the basement for them. then a couple of weeks later i find an add for more silkies but of different colors.so i go to the womans house to pick out some chicks. i come home with 6 more silkies 2 calico 2 partridge and 2 paint splash mixes. i put the white silkies outside and put the new ones in the basement. my brother who dosent pay that much attention to the chickens comes ans d looks at them. then he sais i think your chickens have something wrong with them they changed color. thats really weird.i dont think they are supposed to do that. (My bro is 20 to.) they didnt change color. i got more. o god more chickens just what you need

 

[suzannerae]

Many years ago we ordered 25 chicks from Murray McMurray. I don't really remember all the breeds but it was quite a mixture. Of course there is always the alfa rooster and we called him Larry. Now Larry wasn't the biggest of the group but he was definitely in charge. Every night when it was time for everyone to be in the coop Larry made sure everyone was in and in their assigned spots and he proudly stepped in as I closed and locked the door. One afternoon the neighbors stopped by and we were chatting out in the yard when their hunting dog came looking for them. Larry took one look sounded the alarm and proceeded to chase the dog all the way down the street. That dog never came back and as you can imagine Larry was some full of himself when he returned to his flock.

 

[Wayne&Kim1963]

My funniest chicken story comes from when I was a child.
My Dad had walked outside to our chicken house and brought in Peep, our pet rooster and set him on back of a chair in dining room and was drinking coffee and talking to him. The whole house was quiet and everyone was asleep enjoying sleeping in. It wasn't long and Peep thought to himself it is time to crow and he let out a big cock-a-doodle-doo and flapped his wings and held his head higher and let out cock-a-doodle-doo again! The loud noise woke my mother, and me and my sister right up scaring us half to death. We came out of bedrooms shocked to see our pet rooster setting on the back of the dining room chair. He was delighted to see a bunch of commotion over him so he flapped his wings proudly and let out another cock-a-doodle-doo and so while I was a child this became Peep's sitting place every morning when my Dad was off work.

 

[vickiw]

Last summer one of my rescued hens went broody. I would have to kick her outside otherwise she wouldn't eat or do her business. One morning I went out extra early to let them out because it was supposed to get really hot later. Not thinking, I grabbed the broody girl, stuffed her through the pophole and shut it so she couldn't get back in, and went into the house. Later I was sitting at my computer, my back to the open front door. I could hear a chicken clucking! What? I turned around and there was a hen sitting on the chair next to the door, peeking through the screen and chattering at me! How did she get out? How did she find the front door? I scooped her up and she rode happily in my arms back to the run where I discovered all the girls squawking and frantic! I realized then what I had done. I had locked them all out of the coop before anyone could lay their egg! I opened the pophole and they all skittered up the ramp and into the nest boxes. Later I looked over the entire run and could find no way she could have gotten out and she has never gotten out again. I still think about what a "hen session" that must have been when she was chosen to come tell me they wanted in, NOW!

 

[jbenson]

We were having trouble with our chickens starting to "climb" the fence surrounding their run (basically they would flap their wings to help propel themselves up while they climbed up with their feet and once on top they would jump out to freerange while no one was aware). In order to keep them where I wanted them (and not let them get freeranging into the yard of the apartment complex nextdoor or the street) I decided I would put a mesh deer netting over the top of the run. Worked well at keeping them in, but had an unforseen side effect. One day our new puppy discovered the chicken run and she sure did want to play with them. They were quite startled by her presence and started to fly about in a panic, trying to escape but the mesh was keeping them in.

In that panicked flight my favorite chicken (named Fat Chicken because as a chick she was quite round) caught herself between the layers of the netting. I tried to help her out, but in the process I made it worse! There she was dangling, motionless in shock, by the little curved tip of her beak looking like a duck in a shop window in Chinatown. I was laughing so hard I could hardly stand up while she hung there waiting for me to free her. Needless to say, she hasn't tried to escape since.

Oh yeah, and that's her peering sideways at me in my avatar photo to the left.

 

[LuvinChickens]

Hehe! I love all of these stories.

Well it started when my sister got chased by a rooster when she was little.

So yesterday she went to take care of her ducks. The duck pen is inside a large area that also has three of four chicken pens. She had a bucket and the chickens saw that as food. As she walked into the duck pen about 15 of the girls followed her. She started freaking out as they crowded the door. she is terribly afraid of chickens. If one comes within 10 feet of her she panics and tries to shoo it away while making her way slowely to the gate. She's awfully afraid of harmless little chickens for a 15 year old. =D

 

[RedBrush Farm]

I love my Silkies! They are excellent pets and excellent mothers. It started When I weaned 6 babies from my mini Rex rabbit. They were doing well, but wanted mom badly. Go forward to evening. My favorite white Silkie Rooster (Larry) was having an argument with my favorite black Silkie (Flapper). I normally have them in separate pens, but we were doing some work and needed to combine for a few days. Anyway, I took Larry and put him in a free rabbit cage next to the babies for the night so no one would get hurt. Jump forward to next morning. I walk in and Larry was sittinging in the cage refusing to acknowledge me. (just mad at being caged) I took care of everyone and got to the baby rabbits and 2 were missing! I was frantic!! I looked everywhere. I even sent a text to my husband thinking he had surely let them out when he had been looking at them the night before. Anyway, 2 hours, many tears and a full barn search I gave up and went to talk to Larry (he often doubles as my therapist - as much as I pay for chicken food/treats I feel he owes me) as I'm telling him what has happened, he starts "talking" to me. All at once, one of his wings pops straight up in the air. It was so sudden, it made me jump! As I regained my composure, I saw a little bunny head under Larry's wing!!!! I opened the cage, lifted a very disgruntled Larry up and there as snug as could be were the 2 little bunnies. I found a tiny hole between the cages and sometime during the night, they had crawled through and snuggled up under Larry as a substitute mom. I put Larry back in and they spent the next few days going back and forth between cages and Larry was as content as could be until all construction was finished.

 

[okie chick]

As new chicken people, my husband and I were excited to get our 5 new pullets last April. Since we live inside city limits we are only allowed up to 6 hens and roos are not permited. The funny part of this story became evident to us about three months after we had the "girls" when they decided to start crowing.... Not funny then, but we laugh about it now. Whether you look at in the aspect of us being a couple "cityslickers" who ended up with 5 out of 5 roosters or just "dumb luck," I hope this story makes you laugh.