What is the funniest thing one of your pet chickens has done?

[Iheartmyhens]

Please share...

 

[SmartyChick]

I was outside eating a Peperage (sp) Farm cookie. My Buff Orpingting Cherry crept up when I was not looking and snatched it from my hand, the little rat. I then started chasing her around all over, but then I realized, "why am I chasing her? If I catch her and get my cookie back, will I really eat it now?"

Now, I am always on guard when I walk outside with food

 

[Cindiloohoo]

We had an agressive roo that used to chase us down the fencline of the run when we went to get eggs. One day DD was going to get eggs and decided she'd beat him so she took off running. We kept a 5 gallon bucket of water in the run for the animals right against the fence for ease of filling it. When she ran, so did he never once taking his eyes off of her and fell into that 5 gallon bucket of water. Legs sticking straight up in the air flailing. She almost couldn't get him out she was laughing so hard. The fool almost drowned, but he did quit chasing us down the run fence after that.

 

[featherbaby]

I have pet silkies in a coop that is waist high off the ground. Why? Long story....basically so it won't hurt my back when I play with them because of the height. I opened the side to clean and freshen the shavings one evening. One of my silkie hens was up on the top of the nest box. I wasn't paying attention or looking up when this blob of feet and feathers came flapping-flying at my face. I dropped the things I was holding just in time to catch and juggle her to prevent a fall (hers and mine). When I had her securely in my arms she settled in and gave that contented "purring" sound they make. Now I realize she made up this game to get me to hold her because she's done it several other times since then. Now that I'm prepared however, there's not as much shouting and dancing so the drama isn't as much fun.

 

[incubatingisfun]

one of my pullets flew then landed on my grown barred rock and rode around for awile it was so funny

 

[Serrin]

I don't think I could come up with just one story to share. Mine do things daily, heck hourly, that make me laugh out loud. The babies (7 weeks old now) probably have the craziest antics.

Well, OK, maybe I do have one story off the top of my head:

Yesterday I was standing out in the babies yard, holding Evie, my favorite of this bunch, and just watching everyone running around, playing tag with a bug, taking dust baths, scratching and pecking....you know...just being chickens. I hadn't noticed Brutus at my feet who I guess had been trying to get my attention. Brutus is one of 8 cockerels and the only one of them that I'll be keeping. He's just so sweet and affectionate, how could I possibly consign him to the freezer?

Anyhow, as I'm holding Evie and watching everyone else, Brutus decides that HE wants to be held too! He pecked at my feet a couple of times and then looked up at me wistfully. I said "Hi" to him and figured that was good enough....nope...not this time. All of a sudden I have a flapping, clawing, scrambling cockerel trying to flap/crawl his way up my chest!

It was quite a juggling act to keep Evie in the crook of my left arm while I try to catch poor little Brutus who is quickly sliding down the front of me. And as this is happening, Dorothy, who has a thing for other peoples toes, is trying to snatch off Brutus's! As if gravity weren't already his number one foe!!

I don't know how I did it, but I did finally managed to get Brutus tucked into the crook of my right arm, where he promptly settled down, preened a couple of feathers and looked rather pleased that his little stunt had worked! His sister Evie just looked at him as if to say, "You twit! Why didn't you just wait until she was done cuddling me? You know she would have picked you up eventually!

" If a chicken could roll her eyes in disgust, Evie would have done so.

Admittedly, Brutus is a little bit of a klutz....but I just love him all the more for it!

And hopefully, he and I will have many years together to discover all of his other personality traits.

 

[tnchickenut]

My girl, Margrette (Delaware from my own flock)... she rides the goat's back around. When the goat gets to the gate (the only place the fence has a wooden rail running the top) she may jump off the goat to the fence. I think they are BFF.

 

[paulandashia]

I had just introduced my 6-week-young Pullets into the Coop.
My BCM Roo "Rusty" (my only Roo) walked into the Coop and approached one of my Delaware chicks named Dottie, and PECKED her when she had her back to him.
Dottie jumped in the air and turned completely around to face her attacker.
She GLARED at Rusty, and I SWEAR she had the look on her face that said "Oh NO YOU JUST DIDN'T.!!!!!"
They had a staring contest for about 30 seconds, where neither moved, and then Dottie ATTACKED the Roo!

She was 1/10th his size, and there she was, jumping up at his face, grabbing and puling at his waddles!
Rusty was so SHOCKED that the poor guy just stood there and let this small little thing pull on his waddles and terrorize him!

I had to chase Dottie away from the Big-Bad-Mean rooster, or SHE would have hurt HIM.!

 

[featherbaby]

That just proves the old saying: "It isn't the dog in the fight......it's the fight in the dog". What a fiesty little chick you've got there! She wasn't going to take any abuse from anyone!!!!!

 

[SplashRooster]

Welllllll, Y'see, Within Several Weeks of Getting My Golden Pencilled Hamburg Bantams, The Grew Very Aware Of My habit of taking food into the coop... they're also very cunning.
So. What happens is when i go to the coop to feed my chickens in the morning, i have to go through the kitchen, and on the counter we have a big bowl of snacks. so i usually grab a cookie from the bowl on the way. then i fill the feed bucket with food, (while still eating the cookie of course) then proceed to the coop. i hold the cookie in my mouth while i undo the latch, step in, making sure the dogs don't get in, then do up the latch on the inside, coz we have a latch inside and outside. so one day, the hamburg roo jumped at my face in a flapping feathery frenzy. i dropped my cookie. then the hen took it and ran away. AFTER that, the split it 50-50. they Be Smart.