Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[HollowOfWisps]

All fun and games, till the Rhode Island Reds start eating the broiler alive…………

I don’t have Rhode Island reds.

 

[Logar]

Two of my chickens will also occasionally try to eat my teeth.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

I don’t have Rhode Island reds.

I used to……… would not recommend.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I used to……… would not recommend.

Yeah I have heard they can be more aggressive. I prefer my orpingtons, Marans, speckled Sussex and D’Uccles. All sweet birds.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I used to……… would not recommend.

The large fowl ones tend to be dominant and aggressive. However, I hear nothing about the bantam version other than them being the sweetest things ever. Which I have to agree, because I have Ruby (a Rhode Island Red Bantam hen) and I love her.

 

[HonkABC]

My chickens once flew up on an old roosting bar attached to the wall in the evening (it was not very stable), and at around 9pm, before I went to sleep, I heard them making a racket because the roosting bar fell down! (None of them were hurt.)

 

[Logar]

Guess who just had a chicken give them a nose bleed?

 

[The Birb King]

My rooster doesn’t do this anymore, but when I first introduced him to the flock, he always did this silly little dance before he tried to mate the hens. He hardly ever got one then, because he spent so much time running in circles and flapping his wings.

Pretty much all roosters do that. Its how they tell the hens they want to mate

 

[orelsi]

I had a mixed breed hen 5 or so years ago that would pretend to be injured, limping and making sounds like she was hurt, so that we would open the door between the yards and let her into the one with the lettuce. I did not know they could fake injuries, but there you go. The limping and moaning would stop immediately after we let her through... which we did, despite the damage to the lettuce, because she was just so cute doing it. I bet she felt great outsmarting us.

 

[A Swede in France]

I have a Faverolles hen who likes to come inside to dustbathe on the living-room floor tiles. I wonder if she's criticizing my cleaning... It's certainly dustier when she leaves