Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[DragonflyAcres]

My little black star pullet, Buttercup, keeps trying to eat my hair.

 

[DragonflyAcres]

This is Dot in a weird zombie chicken trance. If she is picked up and moved to a different place in the yard, she sometimes completely freezes, like her brain just stopped. She will turn her head, but refuses to move an inch, sometimes for a very long time.

 

[Sylvester017]

My black sex-link hen has been walking around the coop recently and picking up every feather in the coop and throwing it on her back

I've noticed hens that are ready to lay an egg or go broody will start throwing soft things onto their back like straw, pine shavings, leaves, etc.

 

[I have chickens21]

One time we were working on the roof, and one of my Australorps climbed all the way up the extension ladder to see what we were doing.View attachment 3893614

I once left the food bucket on our porch that is 30-ish feet up and one of my barred rocks jumped up to try and get it, she barley made it lol

 

[I have chickens21]

I've noticed hens that are ready to lay an egg or go broody will start throwing soft things onto their back like straw, pine shavings, leaves, etc.

She has been broody for weeks but I keep taking the eggs from her

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

My pullet Eclipse, eats fallen feathers from her flockmates sometimes.

 

[I have chickens21]

Yeah I have a hen that jumps to my shed roof from the floor. She's a tiny little thing, but she knows it annoys me and the only way to coax her down is with treats... so she knows she gets treats when she goes up there. She doesn't do it unless I'm in the run spoiling the new baby chicks, so I think it's a sort of protest and treat attempt. She's a smart chicken too, I've taught her to jump to my arm by tapping it and I carry her around on my shoulder

We have an old truck under our porch that my chickens love to hang out in but they can never get out

 

[peafowl_Lover]

My hens were having supervised free range time and Snowball came running with a dead bird and she would not drop it, then I got it off her and Masie got it and ran as fast as she could away from me. In the end I got it from them. Hens are weird

 

[I have chickens21]

My hens were having supervised free range time and Snowball came running with a dead bird and she would not drop it, then I got it off her and Masie got it and ran as fast as she could away from me. In the end I got it from them. Hens are weird

lol I’ve had the same experience, one of my pullets got out last year and tried to get back in, a hawk got her and the others were eating it,

 

[Azhtann]

I had a barred rock hen I took in from someone who had no idea she was a chicken. They had separated her from the flock when young because she lost a toe and needed care. She used to follow me around and when I would stop to pet the cats, she would lightly peck them on the head as well. She also thought she lived in the house, although she only went in to get a bath once.