Why does your chicken hate you today?

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

I ended free-range time and they didn't like that.

They had put themselves in the run already...

As soon as I closed the gate, they ran up to it like "why?"

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Today my previously calm and friendly three week old chicks have decided I'm actually the devil incarnate. Maybe it's a hormonal/developmental stage thing; maybe it's because I didn't take them outside yesterday (the weather was vile and I had more chicks hatching); maybe it's because I gave them kale sprouts instead of the purple sprouting broccoli they've been enjoying; maybe there's some other reason that only makes sense to bird brains. We'll work it out.

One of the teenage cockerels also hates me right now because I tried to give him some leftover macaroni. Usually the teens aren't great at trying new foods but I think he thought it was a slug or a leatherjacket and now he's feeling betrayed that I could ever pull such a dirty trick.

Do you have a rage-filled rooster? A sulky silkie? A disappointed duck or an inexplicably terrified turkey? What awful thing did you do to make them hate you today?

KALE sprouts? I would have pecked your eyes out

 

[SHbeach25]

Started free range an hour later than normal because two hawks swooped down when I entered the coop this morning

 

[kattabelly]

Well, guess I can put the machete away. Just heard awake chicken noises (at 4am ) and when I went in to investigate, the 4 week olds were lined up along the top of the babies' "safe space" cage and looking very much like they spent all night roosting there. At least I don't have to worry about any of the babies deciding to sleep with the big chicks and getting crushed overnight now, and the pet carrier they were using is vacant and ready for the babies to move in when I take them off heat in the next week.

KALE sprouts? I would have pecked your eyes out

It's basically the same plant!

 

[GodLovesU]

My bantie rooster hates me for no good reason, as far as I know. I took him in from his previous home (where there were bigger roosters) and provided him with PLENTY of ladies and food and water and shelter… and yet I get flogged.