What Type Of Surprise Have Your Chickens Given You?

[WestminsterHens]

What have your chickens done today? have they pooped on you, or did they steal your sandwich? Maybe they even laid their first egg! Your chickens are most likely already plotting what to do next!

 

[gryeyes]

Well, it wasn't today, but I sure was surprised when one of my girls kept laying her eggs in the dog bed under the TV table. And then she went broody there, even though I kept taking her eggs. So, I put three flock eggs of my choice under her and she HATCHED them. I kept expecting her to give up, but she didn't. She hatched all three eggs.

Now she's raising them. She takes them outside every day and does her Mama Hen thing with them all day, then comes back inside every night to sleep with them in that nest, Err...dog bed.

The oldest dog was really miffed at first, because he USED to hide his treats in that nest.

 

[AvianEgo]

I had a chicken that use to steal any food you were eating. Stole cake from my finances grandpa!

 

[WestminsterHens]

Both those stories are hysterical!

 

[Nike]

Haha!!

I have a 12 foot tall coop and once I went to grab my hen and she flew straight up in the air from underneath onto the roof, ran down the eave of it then flew again 20ft across the yard. It all happened within five seconds! I'm just holy ninja chicken!!!!

 

[Gryphon]

I sliced up a clementine that was past prime and threw it into my pullet's tractor then left for work. My guy reported that Terix (Ameracauna, and the youngest) went STARE...STARE...STARE....EHMERGERD!!! And whipped around at top speed, racing into the pet taxi. (temporary coop). He laughed so hard he nearly dropped.

 

[K-12 Chickens]

This morning, one of my 9 week old white Silkies (who I know is a cockerel) attempted to crow about three or four times. It kind of sounded like a hoarse wheeze; made me laugh when I heard it!

 

[Cleoandclover]

Showed up hale and hearty when she was supposed to be dead(we thought a hawk got her, but she showed up at 9:20 this morning alive and well, albeit a bit thin and dirty). Then she stole my toast. SOMEBODY isn't going to free range for a week until she learns to stay in the yard.