This chicken is not dead

[janiedoe]

I made a thread about hens moving eggs around with a couple of examples.
Thread 'Do your hens relocate their eggs?'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/do-your-hens-relocate-their-eggs.1663457/

That video is fabulous and amazing! Chickens are full of surprises.

 

[Ponypoor]

I don’t have a picture of this either but my two old hens were taking a dust bath by the barn the other day, in a very open space. Suddenly a HUGE bird started circling them. They ran toward the barn but I didn’t think it was safe enough so I shooed them into the trees. Then I realized it was a vulture. He thought those two idiots were dead.

Have a couple of breeding pairs of turkey vultures next door and I am sure those birds enjoy swooping in over the chooks just to watch them scatter

 

[Ponypoor]

Do y'all ever wonder how chickens manage to move eggs from one box to another. I know they do. Its happened more than once around here when I've had marked eggs with broody hens.
Today I have a bantam hen sitting on a rock. Its a nice size rock too. I have no idea where it came from, or how she got it into the coop and then into a nest box thats about 6" off the floor.
It isn't even a smooth rock.

I haven’t had anyone try to move eggs, but lots of other gifting eggs to my broodies. Brats!

 

[kattabelly]

The black one is still mostly looking dead

That's a normal sized pet carrier. All five of them were squished in there, along with nine two week old chicks

 

[Ponypoor]

The black one is still mostly looking dead
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That's a normal sized pet carrier. All five of them were squished in there, along with nine two week old chicks

Silly chooks! Too funny

 

[RoyalChick]

The black one is still mostly looking dead
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That's a normal sized pet carrier. All five of them were squished in there, along with nine two week old chicks

That black one is another one that deserves an Oscar!
Are you sure it is OK??

 

[kattabelly]

That black one is another one that deserves an Oscar!
Are you sure it is OK??

It had a difficult start and it's never been quite right since. It's doing all the normal chicken things along with the others though, so I don't feel too mean laughing at it while it isn't noticeably suffering or struggling.

(Obviously now I've said that, it'll drop dead for real tomorrow)