Weirdest Things Your Chickens Have Done

[SwampPrincessChick]

I used to find my ex-battery hen, Connie, snuggled up on the bed with one of my cats at least once a week. It was her greatest ambition to become a house chicken.

Aw, thank you for saving her! Always nice to hear about ex-battery hens living a good life.

 

[Shetland lover]

I have two chicks inside right now that are in a clear tote to brood. They get out and follow the cats around. Also if a cat isn't sleeping next to the box where they can see them the get loud and obnoxious. Once one of the cats settels in the quiet down and go over next to the wall the cat is closest to and snuggle up.

Aww, that's just too cute! Ferdy and his little sister, Penelope, used to use my big cat, Elliot, as a trampoline from being about 3 weeks old. They'd also creep up behind him whilst he slept and pull tufts of fur out of him.

 

[Shetland lover]

Odie mates my hand. He thinks I am a hen. He dances at me, purrs at it, finds me food to eat (of course I never actually eat it, LOL) . . . I always shove him off when he tries to mate my hand. But I would rather want a friendly cockerel than an aggressive cockerel, so I am fine with Odie.

Ferdy's dad, Sylvester, was obsessed with mating my feet from around 13 weeks old. We had to get him a 'toy' to take his frustrations out on. He still made a bee-line for my feet though. And stamped his feet furiously at my DH every time Sylvester thought he'd got too close.
Stanley, Ferdy's son, mated the side of my head once or twice as a youngster.

 

[Shetland lover]

Aw, thank you for saving her! Always nice to hear about ex-battery hens living a good life.

Aww, thank you. I'd recommend ex-battery hens to anyone. They all have amazing personalities, are smart and funny. True, they have been bred to have short lives but they are worth so much more than being treated as egg machines and it would be lovely if more people would give them a chance.

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

I used to find my ex-battery hen, Connie, snuggled up on the bed with one of my cats at least once a week. It was her greatest ambition to become a house chicken. And Gladys hid herself in our Christmas tree for 3 hours one time while I searched frantically for her. She didn't make a sound the entire time.

Both of these girls sound hilarious and amazing!

 

[Ponypoor]

Odie mates my hand. He thinks I am a hen. He dances at me, purrs at it, finds me food to eat (of course I never actually eat it, LOL) . . . I always shove him off when he tries to mate my hand. But I would rather want a friendly cockerel than an aggressive cockerel, so I am fine with Odie.

I have a young (13wk old) OEGB bantam cockerel who loves to love my hand. But only the right one, the left hand he ignores. He is such a little turnip!

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Aww, thank you. I'd recommend ex-battery hens to anyone. They all have amazing personalities, are smart and funny. True, they have been bred to have short lives but they are worth so much more than being treated as egg machines and it would be lovely if more people would give them a chance.

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 have a young (13wk old) OEGB bantam cockerel who loves to love my hand. But only the right one, the left hand he ignores. He is such a little turnip! View attachment 3909732

He is so pretty!

 

[NagemTX]

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.


He is so pretty!

OMG the hormonal cockerels! They are headed to their own pen tonight!

 

[Shetland lover]

Both of these girls sound hilarious and amazing!

Connie and Gladys were two of my first 4 hens. The other two were also characters.
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! She was also a bit of a kamikaze artist - despite having osteoporosis - and used to leap off roofs, walls etc far too high for her fragile bones. She had her own wheelchair for when she invariably injured herself and took great delight in terrorising the cats with it.
Alice, Gladys's sister, had such an extreme 'tappit' (think a Polish 'hair-do'), she couldn't see a damn thing and often fell into the garden water feature, walked into walls and once got stuck in a bucket. Well, we thought it was the tappit but it turned out she was just a klutz as things didn't improve when we fastened her head feathers up so she could see!
We only have Gladys left out of the original 4. She turned 5 in March and is still laying daily and being as mischievous as ever.

 

[Shetland lover]

I have a young (13wk old) OEGB bantam cockerel who loves to love my hand. But only the right one, the left hand he ignores. He is such a little turnip! View attachment 3909732

He's a handsome little turnip!