Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[Fwoof]

My bantam rooster sits waddle deep in the pine shavings in my coop and softly squeals to himself.

 

[harperboy]

Hello! I want to hear any funny stories anyone has about their chickens doing weird things. I will start first. My Cochin Bantam rooster, Slate (who you can see in this week's picture on the home page), food-clucks at things that are not even food. He will pick up dried leaves, poop, drops of water, dead grass, sticks, and more random things. He does not stop to get attention from the females, food-clucking non-stop for minutes. If he does not get attention, he will scream loudly, sometimes even multiple times.

Now, you go!

No roosters!: my seven hens will not go to the roosting poles at night, all of them crowd into one of the fairly large nesting boxes. This is causing problems now that they have started laying(they’re 4 nos old). Anyone have this problem and what can be done to get them on the poles!?

 

[User690263]

One of my hens was broody one time, and so I had to remove the nesting box because she WOULDN'T STOP going back to it. (this was before I tried the dog crate method) One day I walked into the goat hay shelter which is where the nesting box was, and she was sitting on a wooden platform, on a tiny pile of hay. Chickens are weird.

 

[User690263]

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

Same

 

[User690263]

Same

As in, my chickens do that to. I don't eat the feathers

 

[I have chickens21]

No roosters!: my seven hens will not go to the roosting poles at night, all of them crowd into one of the fairly large nesting boxes. This is causing problems now that they have started laying(they’re 4 nos old). Anyone have this problem and what can be done to get them on the poles!?

Are they too high? Different breeds require different heights, we had to build a ladder for my silky rooster Bruno to get up on the poles

 

[TOMTE]

this JUST happened when i was sitting with the chicks in their run about an hour ago, LOL! what the heck!? took so much self control not to laugh really hard when i was taking the video

 

[Azhtann]

As in, my chickens do that to. I don't eat the feathers

Are you *sure*?

 

[CreativeChicken08]

We have a red laced Cornish bantam named Phoebe. She cannot fly very well and has given herself brain damage! she flies into walls and needs assistance getting down from the roost in the mornings! She flings her head around and holds it sideways. She definitely has brain damage. poor bird. She also lays eggs on the poop shelf!

 

[Devyn Nagy]

Slate has a deformed leg but that does not stop him from dancing at every female he sees . . .