What is your craziest chicken encounter?

[Birdie mom]

He has definitely won the Chicken Nobel Peace Prize for this year!!! And the Honorable Mention in best rooster ever!

 

[Armaget]

here're two short little stories I posted earlier in a thread about quirky chickens-

"Not my chicken, but one summer camp I went too had this big ol chicken room. My counselor was like, "Hey, try to find my favorite chicken : )" And I looked around at all the chickens, but none of them were his very favorite. So then he pointed to the ceiling where, maybe 10 feet up or so, pretty high but I don't know exactly, there was this cute little brown hen sitting on a rafter. He said, "Penny! C'mon!" or something like that and what do you know she just flapped down and started pecking around. Apparently this one little chicken loves to roost incredibly high up.

The other chicken there, another one of this counselor's favorites, was this truly enormous rooster named Big Foot. He was an actual unit, like the size of a smallish medium dog. He was like "Hold our your arms" and he gave me this giant rooster and turns out he was the tamest and loveliest boi ever. He was heavy as hell though but he was very happy to be held in your arms."

Also included in that group was a cute little Porcelain D'Uccle who was small enough to hold in one hand. She looked just like a little pigeon and just lay there. Bantams are adorable

 

[Birdie mom]

The other chicken there, another one of this counselor's favorites, was this truly enormous rooster named Big Foot. He was an actual unit, like the size of a smallish medium dog. He was like "Hold our your arms" and he gave me this giant rooster and turns out he was the tamest and loveliest boi ever. He was heavy as hell though but he was very happy to be held in your arms."

Funnily enough I had a chicken who's name was Big Foot as well! He had the longest legs for a chicken in the world! His feet were so large whenever he ran he looked like a galloping horse... Except for the fact that he was a chicken. We called him the little Dino Raptor. Unfortunately his size was his downfall; he got stuck in between a stack of feed and the wall and couldn't get out. We found him a few days later looking like this.

Poor guy... His large feet were his undoing...

 

[Armaget]

Funnily enough I had a chicken who's name was Big Foot as well! He had the longest legs for a chicken in the world! His feet were so large whenever he ran he looked like a galloping horse... Except for the fact that he was a chicken. We called him the little Dino Raptor. Unfortunately his size was his downfall; he got stuck in between a stack of feed and the wall and couldn't get out. We found him a few days later looking like this. View attachment 2065494
Poor guy... His large feet were his undoing...

Oh no! Poor Bigfoot!

 

[chickens really]

My funniest that still gets me laughing is when I was little out at my uncles. My cousin And I always played with chicks. My other cousin came to the farm too but was wearing her older sisters nice new yellow jacket..
a chick pooped all down the front of the jacket!

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

My first chicken, Ruby was definitely top of the pecking order. We didn’t have any roosters at that time. Whenever I went into the run she would chase and try to flog me. I remember the day it all changed......and so did my neighbor as she watched me chasing Ruby, yelling “ I am the rooster! I am the rooster!” That settled that!

 

[Birdie mom]

about a year ago we walked into a feed store and say these ADORABLE baby Americana chicks. We decided to get one chicken for me and each of my siblings. I named mine cutie pie. A couple weeks later I hear this noise coming out of the brooder. It sounded like a chicken trying to sing with a fish bone stuck in its throat (aka a cockerel trying to crow. ) I look in and there is cutie pie crowing her, or should I say his, heart out. We changed his name to super supper. Everything started going uphill from there. He started acting like a brat and trying to attack us. He eventually lived up to his name: Super Supper. He was in the freezer within two months

 

[Birdie mom]

But he totally deserved it...

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

Hey, I have one! So, I’m just kind of wandering around outside, when I see what looks like tail feathers blowing in the wind on the outside of the fence, in a woodpile. I look closer, and there’s a freaking game rooster there! So I’m gathering him up to take him inside when I see my hen that had been missing. And under her where 14 eggs! And they were already mostly hatched. So I bring the rooster inside, and I move all the chicks and the mother to a coop. Sadly the rooster died, but still, that was the strangest chicken related thing that’s happened to me!

 

[Birdie mom]

Hey, I have one! So, I’m just kind of wandering around outside, when I see what looks like tail feathers blowing in the wind on the outside of the fence, in a woodpile. I look closer, and there’s a freaking game rooster there! So I’m gathering him up to take him inside when I see my hen that had been missing. And under her where 14 eggs! And they were already mostly hatched. So I bring the rooster inside, and I move all the chicks and the mother to a coop. Sadly the rooster died, but still, that was the strangest chicken related thing that’s happened to me!

That is pretty strange!