What does your lowest on the pecking order hen do that's funny, mine..

[trunkman]

I have a RIR runt hen that is the lowest on the pecking order that I named bandit because of the way she makes sure she gets her share of the treats we put out. One day my wife was hand feeding the flock and I noticed the runt couldn't get in on the action of the feeding frenzy. My wife had a large plastic glass full of scratch and poured some in one hand and set the glass down next to her, while all the other hens were going crazy feeding from her hand not letting the little one feed, the little one saw where my wife put the glass of scratch, I noticed the little hen stand still as tho she was thinking and then proceeded to sneak around my wifes back and go up to the glass and stick her head in and gobbled up several beakfuls and run off for a few moments and run back to do the same thing several times while the others were feeding from DW's hand. My wife never noticed till I was laughing outloud and gave away the little hens theft, thus the name bandit. She still to this day sneaks up on the feeding larger hens from behind and reaches over under and steals whatever is in the other hens beaks, I cheer her on every time!!

Do any of your runts do funny things?

 

[BWKatz]

My Polish still sneak under my Leghorn & EE to get their share. No one seems to mind. My smallest Polish Thelma will sit at my feet and walk right by me like a dog wanting to be picked up and carried.

 

[PepsNick]

Mine tries to get revenge on the head hen by laying an egg ON TOP OF HER.

SOOOO funny!

 

[Kathleen1115]

My Partridge Rock, Nugget, who is actually our biggest chicken, is low girl in the pecking order. She is the fastest layer ever because everyone bothers her if she hangs in the nest too long. A couple of my girls will take an hour in the box to lay -- not Nugget -- she is in and out. I was actually having a hard time figuring out which eggs were hers because I wasn't actually able to catch her nesting. The other day she found a worm and two of the others were chasing her around trying to get it from her. She finally got away from them under the hen house long enough to eat it. She's gotten pretty quick.

 

[ScotianChick]

My RIR runt B.B. is not as skittish around me as the other hens and will come eat from the container in my hand while everyone else scratches in other places. And if I have treats she comes right to the front and will sometimes stand on my shoes and stand as tall as she can to attempt to get access to the treats first since only one of her sisters will get as close.

 

[rolffamily]

Lily, a GLW is not only the lowest in the pecking order, but also the roosters favorite. Odd, don't you think? So he makes sure she gets her share of whatever treats they get. She is also the only one out of my five that will come up to me and eat out of my hand, so, of course, I make sure she gets a few bites while the others wait. Probably doesn't help her case much, but I think she can handle herself just fine.