What is the Earliest or Funniest Thing You've Learned About Chickens in the Last 7 Years?

[Kelsie2290]

One funny rooster / hen thing last year. I had some adolescent roosters out with the older girls and we had a short hail storm, there were small hail laying around on the ground... the young roosters ran around picking up the hail stones and doing the bawk bawk come closer girls I found some thing good to eat, the older hens would go up to the cockerels who were picking up and dropping the hail stones invitingly, look at the hail stone, look at the cockerel, and get the most disgusted look on their face, you could just see them thinking what silly boys it's ice, after two or three times the hens just ignored the poor boys, who got all confused when their food melted.

 

[chicksurreal]

One funny rooster / hen thing last year. I had some adolescent roosters out with the older girls and we had a short hail storm, there were small hail laying around on the ground... the young roosters ran around picking up the hail stones and doing the bawk bawk come closer girls I found some thing good to eat, the older hens would go up to the cockerels who were picking up and dropping the hail stones invitingly, look at the hail stone, look at the cockerel, and get the most disgusted look on their face, you could just see them thinking what silly boys it's ice, after two or three times the hens just ignored the poor boys, who got all confused when their food melted.

 

[sunflour]

My experience is only 1 year, but nearly every day my 6 hens never cease to surprise me. If you have a stressful day or feel grumpy yourself, just watch and listen to them and laugh. It is difficult to pick the funniest, but here's a few:

1- Tweedie - BR - takes credit for laying all the eggs. She sings "the chuckle" every time someone in the flock lays an egg.

2- We provide daily treats after all have laid for the day & they know it…so if the time is near, but someone is still laying, they go into the coop, parade around and verbally encourage the last layer to hurry up.

3- Lillie - my favorite BO - supervises and helps me clean the coop and last weekend began sand bathing right right next to me.

4- Earliest - food run with dried mealy worms when chicks were 1 week old & first sand bath the same week!

 

[3chickchicks]

I didn't realize that roos treat their hens better than most men treat their wives/girlfriends.

 

[chicksurreal]

I didn't realize that roos treat their hens better than most men treat their wives/girlfriends.

and so true!

 

[seminolewind]

My first roo with a flock was a blessing. I started with 7 cockerels and figured I would just keep removing the one who can't play well. I ended up with Ivan and his brother Eddie. Ivan would drop the treats for the girls, warm their nests, sing the egg song with them. In the evening he would stroll around the coop to make sure everyone was inside. If a hen was out, he stayed with her till she went in. Yes, some treat their hens very well!

Now this is true. I've had chickens for seven years and never realized until last week that you could see in one nostril out to the other side. Sheesh.

 

[Blooie]

Chickens don't like vacuum cleaners. You're welcome.

 

[3chickchicks]

Chickens don't like vacuum cleaners. You're welcome.

Or tillers. Not only did they go back to the run, they went up on their roost bars and bitched me out from there.

 

[GD91]

I was mistaken to believe "Yeh, I'll get 3-4 hens, stick them in a coop, go out & feed / water them & collect eggs & that will be it."

Oh, how wrong was I!?!

I kept a rooster! That was a start.

One of my latest threads

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/867309/my-hen-seems-abnormal

We also have a hen sitting on 6 eggs right now, so soon it will be double the trouble.

Meanwhile, my DH whines daily about the chickens running in the house & finding Nugget at the foot of our double bed asleep.

He also complained he could no longer read a newspaper in peace without hens racing in through the back door, shredding the paper as / before he reads it & legging it back out again.
Also, I wake up to him swearing at the cockerel daily.
Oh, the joys of chickens......

& oh, what a fine revenge when I'm annoyed