Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[Shetland lover]

Yes! It is worth it making them able to see the beauty of life, even if they only live it for a short time. I would get some, but I am maxed out for chickens now. Too many hormonal cockerels and more chaos going on.

I totally get that. I'm also at my max and DH has threatened divorce if I get any more chickens. I keep saying Stanley needs a couple more ladies and Gladys needs some 'big girl' company, as she's the only standard sized bird I have left. There's a re-homing day coming up soon but no dice....so far

 

[Chickienanaof8]

My girl blue… CROWED!!! What the heck did I just witness lol the black one is her mate….

 

[Ponypoor]

My girl blue… CROWED!!! What the heck did I just witness lol the black one is her mate….

I have two old hens that regularly crow! They seem to compete with my Roo some mornings

Here is Penelope crowing, you hear Mr P my Roo first then she crows (dark hen near the back wall), another hen I have, Sophia, also crows.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

My girl blue… CROWED!!! What the heck did I just witness lol the black one is her mate….

I have a crowing hen! She is a Silver-Laced Sebright named Quartz. She started crowing for reasons unknown, I have plenty of roosters so who knows what she is crowing about, LOL.

 

[Ponypoor]

I have a crowing hen! She is a Silver-Laced Sebright named Quartz. She started crowing for reasons unknown, I have plenty of roosters so who knows what she is crowing about, LOL.

I know - right?! Mine crow along with the boys in the morning. But not during the day. Weird!

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Peggy, the other ex-batt, would snatch anything she thought might be edible. She once stole a lit cigarette out of my mom's hand when she visited. Cue chasing Peggy round the garden with a lit cigarette clamped firmly in her beak!

I love your chickens’ shenanigans! Glad Peggy didn’t pick up the habit, lol!

 

[Shetland lover]

My girl blue… CROWED!!! What the heck did I just witness lol the black one is her mate….

Penelope used to crow so convincingly I thought it was Ferdy, her brother, until I actually witnessed her doing it. And Gladys (she is top of the pecking order - including over the boys!) also crows - sort of. It's more like an angry bull bellowing.

 

[Shetland lover]

I love your chickens’ shenanigans! Glad Peggy didn’t pick up the habit, lol!

Me too. I'm just glad we got it off her before she got bored and burnt the place down. Imagine explaining it to the insurance company "well, what happened was, my chicken went to bed with her lit cigarette and dropped it in the straw..."

 

[Sylvester017]

My young ones don't like roosting poles but they accepted a length of pre dirtied, treated wood garden stakes, the square ones. As soon as I put it in, they jumped on it before I could get the second end in place.
Anything else, they won't go near but squawk as though they're being attacked.. take their perch away an they try to push the door open, they climb over me when I put it back though

Do you have a photo you can post? We bought a chick perch we used in the brooder but the chicks outgrew it fast and we're trying to figure a new one for them. Meanwhile out of the coop they use chair rungs or TV tray support rungs or bottom shelves to roost/sit on.

A video short captured one of our Silkies balancing/sitting on a folding chair bottom. The little chick perch is close by the water cooler & a feed bowl.

 

[Sylvester017]

Close off the nesting box in the evening, well before bed time. We’ve had to do this with a few of our pullets so they have to find somewhere else to sleep and they went to the roosting bars.

We have Silkies who can be overnight egg layers plus they use the nestboxes to roost in at night. Silkies are pile-up sleepers so we can never close up our nestboxes. But we don't mind.