Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[Shetland lover]

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!

Both my bantam cochin boys do this too! I thought mine were the only weirdos that did this. Anything to get laid, eh?

 

[2 chiks n a roo]

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!?

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

 

[PoppasGrill]

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!?

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.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

An older Leghorn hen started laying less and less and then occasionally started crowing for a bit.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

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!?

The poles might be uncomfortable. Can you send pictures of the roosting bars? Most chickens like their roosting bars to be round (like a tree branch), but big and wide enough to where they do not have to wrap their whole foot around it to hang on.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

First up: Velvet and Moonshine both wanted the same nesting box. I would not have thought that this would be the outcome.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

My EE, Bitcoin, likes flying into the balcony, which is about 20 feet up on the air, ten at least in some places.

 

[Barbours]

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!

My rooster is an attention hog, so he will come up to the glass door and pick it untill we acknowledge him or give him a cracker

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

This is Cutie. This is the first time I’ve had to bathe a fully grown bird. This is why we don’t eat flies straight off the trap.

 

[ShotgunDog]

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 have a girl who does that! She does it with pine straw, or whatever she can find after laying her egg. She stuffs the straw down into her feathers and really decorates herself--I call her my little fashionista!