What are your chickens afraid of?

[miss_jayne]

our central vacuuming system!!!

the unit is in the garage, with the brooders, when it turns on, they go INSANE!
run for your lives, keep going in a zig-zag pattern, cover your head!

as soon as it turns off, they are back to doing what they do best: pecking, staring into space, sleeping and mostly pooping!

 

[christmaschicken]

My 6 yr old they all run from her

The Rooster wants a piece of her because she is always holding his ladies he does not like you messing around with his ladies....

They don't like the pigs... at all

 

[DDRanch]

The huge dog crate I moved to the coop during the day and a wooden picnic table bench when I pick it up to move it. I sit on this bench with them every evening, they sit on this bench all day long, but God forbid I should pick it up to move it.

Both of these items can only safely be moved in darkness when the girls are in for the night.

 

[Reinbeau]

Airplanes. Even jets flying so high they're just silvery slivers with contrails!

Most run for cover, the few brave ones do that sideways head thing with one eye craned up to the sky, watching that scary sliver to make sure it doesn't swoop down and divebomb them

I'm under a flight path to and from Logan, but a distance away, so they're mostly high up in the sky by the time they go overhead. We do have some recreational pilots around, too, they're lower, look larger and call for all out panic!

 

[andehens]

The new roost and ramp I just made for them! Or maybe its heights they are afraid of!

 

[debilorrah]

Mine are only afraid of birds flying over their coop. Nothing else.

 

[chickiebaby]

The other day I shook out a tablecloth in the yard, and you would have thought I released a pack of nine hundred hawks.

 

[Tiramisu]

I moved the mop once and they got all freaked out, my BO and GLW are scared of the broom but I think my BA is in love with it, she follows it when I sweep.

 

[Mahjongg90]

Shovels and rakes. Whenever I rake their run, they flip out.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

One of my girls is terrified of butterflies. LOL She actually flew into a bush, screaming, the other day because a large one flew over her head.