What's the weirdest place you've found your chickens?

[The Robot Chick]

This is a thread for crazy chicken stories.

 

[The Robot Chick]

Pretty recently one of my chickens went missing. I got really worried and looked around my yard for at least 2 hours. About an hour later I looked out the window and guess what the chicken was looking right at me for a long time. Dumpling was playing with a baby bunny.

 

[b.hromada]

Pretty recently one of my chickens went missing. I got really worried and looked around my yard for at least 2 hours. About an hour later I looked out the window and guess what the chicken was looking right at me for a long time. Dumpling was playing with a baby bunny.

Awwwwwwww.

 

[Blooie]

I was trying to train 22 chickens to use the roost. Um, it wasn't going well. I'd wait until dark and then go out to the coop in the dark, reach my hands into a pile of chickens not knowing which end I was grabbing, (and some of them would bite!) then put them on the roost one at a time. I'd pet them gently and talk to them, and when they'd settle down I'd reach in the pile for another one. Well, by then the first ones were "uncalm" and flying down to the pile. It was, as I have often said since, like an episode of Keystone Cops. So I gave up. I was following the advice I was given to teach them to roost, but they didn't read that part, I guess. I figured they were happy right where they were, in a heap in front of the closed pop door, so who was I to change things? They'd roost when they were doggone good and ready, and not before. But every night I did go out with a flashlight just to see if any of them had decided to try it. The roost was always bare and the heap was in the corner.

One night I went out and the big feathery pile was in the corner, as usual. But I got this creepy feeling - like eyes were watching me from somewhere. Goosebumps shot up my arms. I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and there was a big old dark colored rat staring at me. I flipped that flashlight on him as I turned to hit the door and get the heck outta dodge. Wait...that wasn't a rat - it was a chicken...it was several chickens. The goofy things were too afraid to get up on the roost by themselves, but they had no problem flying up to the 2X4 studs in the wall framing and going to sleep!


There are two chickens on this part of the framing....the first night two of the dark ones were on the framing on the opposite side - those are the ones that looked like a big rat staring back at me. I just flipped on the light out there real quick the next night to snap a quick pic with my phone. They did this for a couple of weeks, until they got too big. Now they are good little chickens and roost where they're supposed to every night.

 

[The Robot Chick]

That Gave me a mini heart attack