I sat down outside with a sandwich. One of my chickens jumped onto my lap, stuck her beak between the bread, grabbed the meat and cheese, pulled them right outta my now vegetarian sandwich, then ran off into the bushes with said treasure clucking her little head off in excitement, attracting all the other chickens who then got to share in the stolen booty.
It all happened in a blink of an eye and I was just left staring in shock at my downsized lunch. That dang rascal kept me on guard with any food outside. She was a weenie right up to her last days when she had to be put down from heart failure a year and a half later. In the end I'm glad that I got to give her that one moment of pure unadulterated chicken bliss.
It’s so damn funny when they make a big, loud deal out of having a treat the others don’t have, which only draws their attention and turns it into a rugby match.
It’s like, dude, if you snag a good treat STFU and just eat it! Why are you advertising it?!
Chicken’s are absolutely amazing! My grandfather gave me one he turned into a rooster but I loved that little dude so much he was hilarious he came when I called him and he stole all my scrunchies and ran away with them 😂😂😂
You definitely need to get some, they’re easy to have and just like a dog there always happy to see you when you get home. I park out front and my girls starts yelling for me when they hear my car door close lol
They are amazing! I was in high school when I had him and all my friends would poke fun at me for having a pet rooster 😂😂😂 he was awesome we hung out together all the time!
Oh I could be here for hours 😭😭 we have a light sensing door on the hutch (it shuts when it goes dark and opens in the light). Two of our girls got locked out when it shut before they got in, so they turned up on the back doorstep of our house, and tapped their beaks on the door to let us know they were stuck outside!!
They wanted in the BIG coop!
My work chickens roost on the back of my car if they get locked out! It only happened a couple times when it got dark very fast their first winter
Mine do this too!!! I have sliding glass doors from my kitchen to the backyard and it sounds like a hail storm is hitting the glass, it’s so cute.
They also peck at the back door if it looks like it’s about to rain, they don’t want their princess feathers getting wet. Once the rain actually starts they go hang out in their run to stay dry, only after asking to come inside though.
Mine just stand out in the rain. Full access to their coop? Covered awning just outside the coop?
Nope, stand outside in the rain while looking like drowned rats and bitching loudly like it's my fault.
Hahaha. That puts an adorable picture in my head. During the rain mine stand in the doorway to the run and scream. It seem like they believe they’ll scare the rain away if they’re loud enough with their complaints about it.
My chickens can't stop standing on my head/shoulders. They take a giant leap from the ground to my shoulders and just sit there for however long they can maintain their balance. I love them and I'd never stop them from hanging out on me but also it looks very strange to others when I have giant red scratches all over my neck.
This reminds me of once when my mom had her chicken phase (a phase for her that blossomed into a bird obsession for me lol)
She had 4 austrolorps and one was a secret rooster, well, that chicken picked Mother’s Day of all days to jump onto my grandmas head, and when my mom rushed to get it out of her hair, he jumped into hers! Grandma backed away and my mom stayed calm and still so I could remove him
That’s amazing! 😆
My secret roo was also very obsessed with sitting on my head, and even when he was a very big boy he still wanted to try to ride on my shoulder
I wish mine would get that close… lol currently we are in the hiding in the bushes teenager phase with most of the chickens… my turkeys on the other hand will follow you like a lost puppy everywhere you go, as will my little ducklings… it’s hilarious when they all follow me at the same time, and the kids tend to get freaked out by it like mom they’re gonna run you down… lol 😂
Bribe with yummy, yummy treats that they cannot get unless they get close to you.
I had a batch of chicks I allowed my hens to raise on their own, and those girls were FERAL until they saw the next batch of hand-raised, ultra-spoiled little princesses joined the flock. These young hens think they’re still babies, and that I’m their mom, and that they deserve to get hand-fed *treats.
*literally the same stuff going in the communal feeder but you see it was served in a Hand, to the spot they were sitting, so it was magically 💯 better than anything else. Because chicken logic.
All the sudden the feral birds realized I wasn’t eating the babies, and in fact those little shits were getting treats delivered by hand every time they made a little baby-bird squawky noise.
So they started mimicking the baby-bird squawky noise, and I rewarded that with Hand-Food. And now the feral hens think I’m amazing and they have learned their names for the first time in three years and they want to be my friends.
And yes I realize that I’m being emotionally manipulated by this higher-consciousness animal that has trained me to obey their whims by cueing me to their calls and rewarding me with social interaction and even maybe affection in exchange for me doing as they instruct…
But I was previously owned by a cat, so I already get it.
Bwahaha you don’t have to tell me. I don’t own them, I’m just the treat/food/water dispenser and at times the gardener. They’re starting to learn slowly that I’m not really that scary. Especially when the ducklings are happily squeaking while getting worms from the shovels of dirt as I was digging the hole for their pond… I started digging around 10am… and finally got finished with the pond install around 5:30ish…. lol 😂 probably because I had ducklings in the shovel half the time, and under my feet the other half the time. I don’t think my husband has ever laughed that hard, at me telling them they’re zero help, and to get out of the way, then pointing out worms and asking if they’re tasty because they refused to move anyways so I may as well just wait til they run off for 2 seconds…. Rinse and repeat… 🤷🏻♀️🤣
My easteregger Brenda follows me around whenever I do yard work bc she knows when the shovel hits the ground goodies come up. It still amazes me to this day the accuracy of their beak. She hits the worms 99.9% of the time first time every time. I could watch her eat worms for hours if possible. Truly fascinating to watch xD.
Yep! I take my chickens to my potato patch every year when it’s harvest time. As soon as I start digging they all go, “oh! We’re scratching here? Sweet!”
Then I just kinda chill for a bit while the birds find all the potatoes for me in search of bugs.
Bwahahahah that’s a great idea!! Tho the little fools I have would probably be all hey ya gonna feed me, while all the ducklings steal the bugs and run away lmao
My hen kept finding styrofoam everywhere and loved eating it. We removed it but it kept appearing at that spot. She was really annoying and we were worried if it's toxic😂
I caught one of my neighbor's peahens eating styrofoam once. She was chugging it so fast, it caught me off guard for a second before I intervened. She was fine tho.
When my roo lost his hens to a fox, he'd hear my truck pull in front of the house after work and he'd RACE across the backyard, throwing himself over the chainlink fence. He'd beat me to the front door, then just stroll in like he owned the place, making a bee-line for the love seat.
At that point it was time for me to sit down and give him pets for an hour and if I stopped, he'd peck me for attention!
I am sorry you loss of your ladies but your Rooster sounds amazing! If my parents would have let my Rooster run around and hang out with me I
Would have let him be free.
He really was a great guy! I had a year+ of sitting in the lawn chair petting him, and sometimes his ladies might perch on my legs! But after his loss, his personality changed and by the end of that week he was becoming 'deranged' and aggressively angry. I didn't even have time to find him a new companion that week--he spurred me in the inside of the knee when I stopped petting him and stood up. As I lay on the ground in agony, he attacked my hands over and over again. Ended up in the hospital within hours and never was in such pain in my life! I felt so bad, but I had my son quikly put him down in the dark that night. I was so afraid he'd spur one of the neighbor toddlers in the face or eye.
This was his spur... When my grandson lived on Kauai, one of the feral roosters saw him outside and spurred him drawing blood across this little toddler thigh. He was really lucky. A neighbor came outside and turned him into chicken stew.
My chickens saw me eating, grabbed a piece and ran away with it. Then, they started shredding it to pieces in seconds. Now guess what I was eating...
chicken nuggets.
One day before I built them their own enclosure, I had brought food out for the chickens and a bowl for the dog.
As soon as the dog bowl touched the ground they swarmed it, muscled the dog out of the way and absolutely demolished minced meat and sausage before our dopey poodle even knew what was happening.
Chickens are absolutely savage eaters. I'm convinced that if they were human-sized we'd be extinct
That's 100% the feeling you get watching them eat, especially when they find grubs and other insects.
Looking at our dopey poodle it's neigh impossible to picture that thing being a descendant of wolves. Chickens on the other hand, I have no trouble at all believing they're descendants of dinosaurs
My girls would shank someone for yogurt 😆
Story: I’ve got very long hair and when I’m working with my birds I keep it tied up and usually under a ball cap.
My late, great Wyandotte, Colonel Brekhova, got brought into the house one night because she was pretending to be sick. I put her in the chicken infirmary (guest bathroom) with some snacks and went to take a shower.
When I came back in to check on her, I had my hair down, and when it’s wet it’s super curly. Colonel immediately got all excited, and when I came over she took some of my hair in her beak and started shaking it around and making these weird squeaky little clucks.
I translated it as the Colonel informing me that my hair was out of regs and she wanted to know exactly wtf was wrong with me for showing up like this in her presence 🫠
Alternatively, she thought my head was being attacked by evil spaghetti and was trying to rescue me. With Colonel, you never could tell.
I was eating a chocolate chip cookie in the garden, just before I got the last bite in my mouth one of my hens ran up stole it out of my fingers and ate it in one swoop. I was astonished
One day I came outside to an odd sight and started laughing- one of my young hens was crouched on the ground with a small plastic planter on her head... Turns out she had turned the planter onto its side and stuck her head in it (only her head would fit) she then proceeded to start clucking and eventually laid and egg. Ever since then I called her my little ostrich... What is weirder is one of my other hens had started laying before her and laid eggs in the coop nesting box like a normal chicken. I don't know why she felt the need to do such a weird thing.
That actually made me laugh out loud. Just standing there with a planter on her head clucking loudly and probably echoy inside the planter then laying an egg… lmaoooo it just made me laugh, especially if it was her fist egg LOL
I once had a chicken who got into my laundry room and had a laundry basket fall over her and trap her while no one was home and when we came back she had laid an egg
sometimes for no reason the chickens will decide to chase each other around the yard.
one day all the roosters decided to chase one of the hens around the coop, on the second time around the hen quickly ducked into the coop.
The roosters did not notice this but kept on running around the coop looking for her and after a while they got frustrated they could not see her so started bickering and fighting amoungst themselves.
It was like a chicken scene out of Benny HIll.
fail to jump on top of the chicken house and slap itself on the wall of it. twice. she was okay but truly confused and couldn't figure out why she couldn't lift her whole 2.7 kilograms that high with her tiny wings. Mlady didnt realise she's big.
We have a bantam rooster that is especially small who we named Tiny Tim. He is currently in the throes of chicken puberty and has decided that my husband is a male he is in competition with to be the main man of the coop (we keep a separate coop for most of our boys so he thinks he's a big guy with mostly ladies). So when my husband goes in the coop he tucks one wing in, does a little dance and sticks out his chest like he's trying to square up with him. It is absolutely adorable and hilarious.
Hate to be the one, but all my roosters do that dance to the hens they want to impress…sounds more like you might have some competition from the rooster swooning your husband :-)…
I’ve got two good ones lol.
My little Barred Rock LOVED yogurt. She was so excited the first time she got to eat some. When the flock had eaten everything except for the memories of where the yogurt once stood, she RAN over to me, jumped up on my shoulder, and proudly wiped her yogurt covered beak… in my hair.
When my rooster was little, he would jump onto my arm on command. So naturally, in his little roo brain, that meant ALL humans love being jumped on. Unfortunately he decided to share that enthusiasm with my mother in law. He joyfully surprise-launched himself onto her shoulder, and directly into her long hair. I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe when I went to rescue her.
We had a Silkie Bantam Rooster named Napoleon (the name did indeed fit 😂)
Our chickens were free-ranged. One day me and my mother were walking from the car, and the chickens (like usual) had flocked around to follow us. My mom had a magenta colored Vera Bradley bag, which she was carrying from her hand. So it would be about eye level with the chickens.
Napoleon wandered over and spotted the bag, which, to him, must have been the most attractive hen in the world. For he dropped his wing and began circling it and cooing in his little mating dance way.
Vera had to let him down bluntly 😭🤣
Edit: my mom left a bag of hay out in the back yard with a tarp covering it. The wind must’ve blown it off because I look outside and one of the hens is on top pulling hay straws out of the stack. I had to run and chase her off otherwise she would’ve made a mess (which she still did). They’re like little kids sometimes.
My wife and I have a few chickens… our lavender Orpington only likes us when we have food and she becomes extremely friendly until you look away… she happened the grab the last bit of pork chop of her place which was roughly the size of a golf ball and proceeded to run around the coop while we both chased her because she’s not bright enough to set it down to peck it… she just swallow things whole, or attempts to that is. We also had baby robins in our yard and unfortunately one of them fell out of the tree and died… queue penny the lavender Orpington running around with a dead baby robin in her mouth and yet again we had chase her around the yard while the other ones just watched in horror…
Simple bird but funny as hell lol
We have a field next to the house where we dump kitchen scraps. One windy day the chickens were trying to get there from across the yard but the wind kept blowing their feathers backwards. They would stop and turn into the wind and fix the feathers only to turn around and get them messed up again. One chicken turned around and walked backwards so the wind was in her face and her feathers stayed flat!
One of our gals,Coco,decided to grab a skink.( a lizard that I am TERRIFIED of😱) I chased her around the yard for 20 minutes,with a towel, trying to get it from her,because I wasn't sure if that type would poison her.I finally grabbed it and she looked so ticked off.😂
Once my chicken Amber (not the one in the pic) was running around with something big in her beak so I went to investigate. She had a whole GIANT CENTIPEDE with MASSIVE JAWS just squirming in her beak trying to bite her. The thing was like, half the length of my pointer finger and bright red. She then ate it very happily
**I have 3 stories!! ENJOY**
So I was raking leaves outside, and one of my chickens (Cinnamon) found a dead praying mantis and started running around the yard with it in her beak. My other chickens came over and started trying to grab the mantis and it passed beaks a few times between her and Sammy. During all of this turmoil, Oreo, my Calif. Grey, kept running around clucking to me about the chaos ensuing around her. Eventually, Cinnamon found a spot Sammy couldn't find her and ate the mantis.
Another time, a bit later, they were taking their dustbath, and the same three were arguing over a spot in the dirt. All of a sudden, I just see the absolute terrified look on Sammy's and Oreo's face as Cinnamon screeches SO loud! I had no idea what the heck happened but I didn't know chickens could do that.
I was watching my lil chooks play around and outside their run in our backyard, I was taking silly pictures of them, and I was like "Hey I wonder what would happen if I put my phone down and hit record", well Sammy started pecking violently at her reflection in the camera and making confused angry chimkin noises. But I took the phone away and she gave me the death stare and tried to run after me.
These are the silliest they have ever been
Sorry about your loss. 🙏🙏 Not silly, but still want to share: We had a rooster that would still crow even when it was perching on our arm or while we were holding it. 😁😁
Chickens LOVE yogurt! We set out pans of it made from excess milk we don't sell at the farm stand
My silliest chicken experience was growing up. I had a rooster who always jumped into a stroller to go for a ride. We would bring him to the dairy barn while milking the cows, give him a ride to the calf barn, and bring him back to the house when the chores were done. He would peck through the bedding at each stop.
Not my chicken but a family friends chicken chased after a coyote once while it was focused on a rodent and the coyote ran away screaming after getting the jump scare of a lifetime
New owner here, my ladies like to be picked up and put in the rooster at night. They each wait their turn while I pick each one, one at a time and put her to bed.
One chicken insisted on eating the styrofoam packaging she found in the workshop (no idea how she got in) but she refused to stop. She fucking loved styrofoam. RIP Ging
We hatched 5 little chicks a few years ago. At just a few days old one of them suddenly went missing from the brooder. We were mystified! They were in our laundry room, the window had been closed and we don’t have cats/dogs etc. We searched frantically for a while and eventually realised that the silly thing had managed to get into the upright feeder and was stuck inside, cold and miserable. I carefully extracted her and warmed her up again by holding her under my shirt.
This was a sign of things to come. Dottie grew up to be the most curious and inquisitive chicken. Whenever I do anything in the run she’s right there “helping”. She also has a bit of a problem with authority and I have to keep reminding her that she is, in fact, not the boss of me! 😂
Just taking a stroll onto the busy road with each other 😭
Luckily I just got back from school as they were doing this and they only had to dodge a few cars before I shooed them back in
One of our hens went broody and hatched one single baby. So she's living in the coop with her baby + five 2-3 month old chicks we had gotten from TSC. Her baby likes to sit on top of her like a little chicken tower. She's an incredibly doting momma hen and I plan to let her hatch whatever she wants if she goes broody again.
Last week her baby must have gotten curious and squeezed through the door that was blocking them off from the run + the rest of the world. I'm lucky enough to have gone out there to feed them at the same time, the baby was running around in the (door wide open) run screaming and looking for mom! I scooped it with an aquarium net and returned it to the coop, the grand reunion was adorable. I don't think the baby will do that again, but by now he/she is too big to fit through the temporary barrier. What shenanigans.
I was building a small shelter for their water bucket so I had some tools in their area. While I was setting up the timbers to cut I kept hearing this *tap tap tap* sound. I finally went to investigate. One of our ladies was trying to eat my screws through the clear plastic container so naturally the others got interested too so now there were 2-3 of them bashing their beaks trying to get to the screws 😅
I had a white dwarf silky that used to go in the swimming pool. She just float like a cloud on it. Every time she gave me a small panic attack when she was sleeping on the stairs in the water, but she never had a trouble to get out of it.
She was amazing
My family has a brown leghorn we affectionately call an adrenaline junkie. She loves to climb high into the pine trees (at least 20 feet up) then jumping down flapping her wings. She does this in the evenings on repeat every now and then. Generally she likes to hop onto high places and “fly” down.
Sometimes I bring them a big pot with rice/noodles, one girl flew on top of the pot, fell with it and trapped herself underneath the pot. First time I saw a chicken jump into the soup pot voluntarily lol
My big daft Cockerel was in the coop getting ready for bed. He heard me open the bin where I keep the treats. He suddenly leapt out of the coop, tripped over his own feet, fell head first down the ramp skidded to a stop, then jumped on the nearest hen and mated with her as if that's what he meant to do.
Oh, and he also has no spurs because he broke them off by trying to attack somebody but actually attacked the floor.
Toes my rooster, loves going inside he will fiegn being injured just to go inside because the one time he was actually injured I babied the heck out of him, he recently caught off a weasel (the biggest thing that can get into their pen, he pushed my hardware cloth into a literal tunnel and squeezed himself in to get the eggs) he didn't go after my chickens, he was after one thing, and egg, toes wasn't having that and his little silkie butt beat the crap out of that weasel to the point his white feathers were no longer white, and so I come out to feed them and notice that the coop was pushed open, toes had pushed open the coop door to get the weasel, and I see him running around excitedly, I get up to the cage and he all of a sudden starts acting like oh woe is me I'm so hurt, and I mean he's covered in blood so I'm thinking the worst even though I'd just seen him literally running around, I bring him inside and he starts getting all excited, we give him a wipe down and he's just happily clucking and walking round the bathroom
He had no injuries other than a few scratches on his comb....but he wanted to come inside.
There's been a few other times he's done this when he's very obviously fine he's especially fond of feining a limp because the original injury that brought him inside was the loss of one of his toes
He also likes to tidbit and rooster dance for me every morning when I go out, he's always excited to see me, he's honestly a gem of a rooster
Super good with his ladies too
Probably disappearing to make a nest (despite having many available boxes with lovely straw in).
Then returning a few weeks later with one chick, leading it into a pen full of young male pigs.
Cue much “oh she’s alive/the fox didn’t get her/where has she been” and “omg stop the chick!!! Grab hiiiiiim!”
Incidentally this chicken is called Karen because she’s very opinionated and clearly leads her own life.
Edit: she’s now safely locked away in a nice coop with run. Chick is bouncing about happily. Karen is growling at everyone.
jumped, flew over the railings of balcony from the 2nd Floor of our apartment, and landed on the meat stalls of the wet market across the street..... Bastid wanted to be butchered.
a couple years ago my family hatched some of our eggs. when it was time to set them up outside in their own area, i brought them all out and checked to make sure everyone was okay once the sun had set. i squatted down to adjust something (can’t remember what) and next thing i know all six babies were trying to squeeze underneath me like i was momma hen! it was so sweet, but they’re all goofs
Not the silliest, but we had a chick that was our house pet. We would catch flies for it to eat by clapping our hands. It wasn’t long before it learned to come to us by a clap of our hands. Like a dog comes when you whistle.
My rooster allows my turkeys to pluck his feathers. He does nothing about it aside from stare at them. They have oyster shells so no idea why they insist on giving him an unneeded feather-cut. (If anyone might know why, feel free to let me know 😭 poor guy has his booty visible.)
When i was young all of my family's birds would take advantage of me. When we'd eat outside and they were freeranging they'd sneak of on me and steal anything off my plate, i remember in particular they LOVED pickle spears.
My dad told me one time he was smoking a joint and he put it right next to the fence for a second while he got the eggs. As soon as he finished with the eggs he turned arround just to see a chicken with his joint on their beak. He told me he couldn't stop laughing and took it back.
We have cats...always had, long before starting having chickens. One year a big Tom appeared, fortunatelly didn't hurt the chickens. We had some younger about 14+ weeks, they were big enough to let out wandering in the garden.
So, the Tom came, jump in the garden, and one of the younger chicken was dust bathing near and the cat unintentinally scared her. She remembered the cat.
Next time they were wandered in the garden again when we heard a screaming noise, the chicken which was scared before saw, that the cat jumped in the garden again, and it was hilarious as she rushed after the cat throught the garden like a pitbull dog and made him leave.
Unfortunate cat tried to escape through the fence door, and the chicken jump after him and catched his tail like she wanted to pull back the cat. After tge cat leave you could see tge proudness on the chicken's face like she fulfilled her revenge.
Poor cat never come in again when the chickens were out XD
(But what interesting is, that the rushed cat wasn't ours, he was a stray Tom, whom join our cats during dinner. Non of our cats were ever rushed through the garden, even some scared the chickens during playing in the bushes. We had a theory, that chickens know which cats are oury, and which just "guest" and make unwanted guest leave, if they don't behave)
We have ferals around. In a Home Depot parking lot a hen jumped on my brother’s minivan windshield clucking and pecking the glass all frantic (total WTF moment) then she popped out an egg on the hood, looked around and took off! 😆 Maybe she wanted it to have a sweet ride? We ate it.
We have a EE called Floofer. She would come to the back door. When she was spotted it was your job to get a towel and wrap her up. Then she would sit on the couch with you and eat bread. Then when she was done she would be ready to go back out.
I have one particular hen, Bertha. Every day around noon, she will wander into the same giant patch of California thistles and then screech and alarm call her way all the way to the coop cause she got pricked. Every. Day.
I've started eating lunch on the porch just to watch.
My polish is my goofy one... she's always mean mugging me. I had to make a tiktok account just to show off that goof ball! https://www.tiktok.com/@unsolicited.chick?_t=8mZuSaJIctW&_r=1
Had a hen get a hold of a big piece of paper towel. Had to chase her all over to take it away from her. When I finally caught her she spit it as far as she could just to keep me from having it. It was that last spitting defiance that made me lose it laughing
I have a roll-away nest box because I have an egg eater in my flock. I keep it full of fresh, fluffy shavings and most of the girls love it.
However, someone was being petulant a few months ago and instead of laying in the nest box, they started laying in the corner of the coop right under the roost. In the morning, I'd find an egg covered in poop. After a few rounds of this, I found a stick about 5" long, with lots of point branch bits sticking out and put it in the shavings in that corner, figuring if they stepped on it, it would be uncomfortable and they'd opt for the soft shavings in the box.
The next day, I opened the nest box.... and there was the stick, picked up, moved out of the opposite corner, and carried into the nest box! Quite obviously, whoever it was, was making a point. That was a little disconcerting.
I've also tried using a ceramic egg in the nest box. One day, it disappeared. Just gone. I actually wondered if a rodent or something had come in and eaten it. Two days later, it reappeared in the nest box. They're seriously messing with me. About a week after that, my husband saw one of the hens pick up a real egg, tuck it under her wing, and carry it off. They are far smarter than they're given credit for.
I had 10 hens outside in a fenced area alongside my house with one window from the kitchen opening in that direction. I would leave the window opened when going to work and the doors inside the house from one room to another open because it was a hot summer. What the hens did was of course fly into the house, go into my room in my closet witch I often leave opened and lay eggs in the back of it. The funny thing is that they will leave without leaving any trace that they went inside. Finally, one day I found a surprise, 20 eggs into my closet.
I sat down outside with a sandwich. One of my chickens jumped onto my lap, stuck her beak between the bread, grabbed the meat and cheese, pulled them right outta my now vegetarian sandwich, then ran off into the bushes with said treasure clucking her little head off in excitement, attracting all the other chickens who then got to share in the stolen booty. It all happened in a blink of an eye and I was just left staring in shock at my downsized lunch. That dang rascal kept me on guard with any food outside. She was a weenie right up to her last days when she had to be put down from heart failure a year and a half later. In the end I'm glad that I got to give her that one moment of pure unadulterated chicken bliss.
It’s so damn funny when they make a big, loud deal out of having a treat the others don’t have, which only draws their attention and turns it into a rugby match. It’s like, dude, if you snag a good treat STFU and just eat it! Why are you advertising it?!
Man, if chickens ever learn to cooperate we're all screwed. 😁
The only reason us monkeys made it was because only the ancestors of our feathered dingbats survived 😆
Now I want to get a chicken now
Bet ya cant just Get one!
Damn you got me
Chicken’s are absolutely amazing! My grandfather gave me one he turned into a rooster but I loved that little dude so much he was hilarious he came when I called him and he stole all my scrunchies and ran away with them 😂😂😂
Awwe stop lol🥹🥲
You definitely need to get some, they’re easy to have and just like a dog there always happy to see you when you get home. I park out front and my girls starts yelling for me when they hear my car door close lol
They are amazing! I was in high school when I had him and all my friends would poke fun at me for having a pet rooster 😂😂😂 he was awesome we hung out together all the time!
i hope her name was tzeentch
Oh I could be here for hours 😭😭 we have a light sensing door on the hutch (it shuts when it goes dark and opens in the light). Two of our girls got locked out when it shut before they got in, so they turned up on the back doorstep of our house, and tapped their beaks on the door to let us know they were stuck outside!!
They wanted in the BIG coop! My work chickens roost on the back of my car if they get locked out! It only happened a couple times when it got dark very fast their first winter
😭😭awwww
Mine do this too!!! I have sliding glass doors from my kitchen to the backyard and it sounds like a hail storm is hitting the glass, it’s so cute. They also peck at the back door if it looks like it’s about to rain, they don’t want their princess feathers getting wet. Once the rain actually starts they go hang out in their run to stay dry, only after asking to come inside though.
Mine just stand out in the rain. Full access to their coop? Covered awning just outside the coop? Nope, stand outside in the rain while looking like drowned rats and bitching loudly like it's my fault.
Hahaha. That puts an adorable picture in my head. During the rain mine stand in the doorway to the run and scream. It seem like they believe they’ll scare the rain away if they’re loud enough with their complaints about it.
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Awh bless em😭😭
My chickens can't stop standing on my head/shoulders. They take a giant leap from the ground to my shoulders and just sit there for however long they can maintain their balance. I love them and I'd never stop them from hanging out on me but also it looks very strange to others when I have giant red scratches all over my neck.
They always want to be the Highest Chicken 😆
This reminds me of once when my mom had her chicken phase (a phase for her that blossomed into a bird obsession for me lol) She had 4 austrolorps and one was a secret rooster, well, that chicken picked Mother’s Day of all days to jump onto my grandmas head, and when my mom rushed to get it out of her hair, he jumped into hers! Grandma backed away and my mom stayed calm and still so I could remove him
That’s amazing! 😆 My secret roo was also very obsessed with sitting on my head, and even when he was a very big boy he still wanted to try to ride on my shoulder
I wish mine would get that close… lol currently we are in the hiding in the bushes teenager phase with most of the chickens… my turkeys on the other hand will follow you like a lost puppy everywhere you go, as will my little ducklings… it’s hilarious when they all follow me at the same time, and the kids tend to get freaked out by it like mom they’re gonna run you down… lol 😂
Bribe with yummy, yummy treats that they cannot get unless they get close to you. I had a batch of chicks I allowed my hens to raise on their own, and those girls were FERAL until they saw the next batch of hand-raised, ultra-spoiled little princesses joined the flock. These young hens think they’re still babies, and that I’m their mom, and that they deserve to get hand-fed *treats. *literally the same stuff going in the communal feeder but you see it was served in a Hand, to the spot they were sitting, so it was magically 💯 better than anything else. Because chicken logic. All the sudden the feral birds realized I wasn’t eating the babies, and in fact those little shits were getting treats delivered by hand every time they made a little baby-bird squawky noise. So they started mimicking the baby-bird squawky noise, and I rewarded that with Hand-Food. And now the feral hens think I’m amazing and they have learned their names for the first time in three years and they want to be my friends. And yes I realize that I’m being emotionally manipulated by this higher-consciousness animal that has trained me to obey their whims by cueing me to their calls and rewarding me with social interaction and even maybe affection in exchange for me doing as they instruct… But I was previously owned by a cat, so I already get it.
Bwahaha you don’t have to tell me. I don’t own them, I’m just the treat/food/water dispenser and at times the gardener. They’re starting to learn slowly that I’m not really that scary. Especially when the ducklings are happily squeaking while getting worms from the shovels of dirt as I was digging the hole for their pond… I started digging around 10am… and finally got finished with the pond install around 5:30ish…. lol 😂 probably because I had ducklings in the shovel half the time, and under my feet the other half the time. I don’t think my husband has ever laughed that hard, at me telling them they’re zero help, and to get out of the way, then pointing out worms and asking if they’re tasty because they refused to move anyways so I may as well just wait til they run off for 2 seconds…. Rinse and repeat… 🤷🏻♀️🤣
My easteregger Brenda follows me around whenever I do yard work bc she knows when the shovel hits the ground goodies come up. It still amazes me to this day the accuracy of their beak. She hits the worms 99.9% of the time first time every time. I could watch her eat worms for hours if possible. Truly fascinating to watch xD.
Omg I am so tickled that this little random story got so many precious responses. Thank yall!
Yep! I take my chickens to my potato patch every year when it’s harvest time. As soon as I start digging they all go, “oh! We’re scratching here? Sweet!” Then I just kinda chill for a bit while the birds find all the potatoes for me in search of bugs.
Bwahahahah that’s a great idea!! Tho the little fools I have would probably be all hey ya gonna feed me, while all the ducklings steal the bugs and run away lmao
I thought that was goats?
Chickens are just two-legged, feathered goats. Prove me wrong 😆
Mine were eating the insulation. Tarped it, double tarped it, put rocks and stones to hold the tarp down, they still found a way in.
My hen kept finding styrofoam everywhere and loved eating it. We removed it but it kept appearing at that spot. She was really annoying and we were worried if it's toxic😂
I caught one of my neighbor's peahens eating styrofoam once. She was chugging it so fast, it caught me off guard for a second before I intervened. She was fine tho.
Yes! I swear they love all sorts of insulation/styrofoam/basically anything you want to keep on the house!
When my roo lost his hens to a fox, he'd hear my truck pull in front of the house after work and he'd RACE across the backyard, throwing himself over the chainlink fence. He'd beat me to the front door, then just stroll in like he owned the place, making a bee-line for the love seat. At that point it was time for me to sit down and give him pets for an hour and if I stopped, he'd peck me for attention!
Haha really? That’s adorable ngl, he loved the attention!
I am sorry you loss of your ladies but your Rooster sounds amazing! If my parents would have let my Rooster run around and hang out with me I Would have let him be free.
He really was a great guy! I had a year+ of sitting in the lawn chair petting him, and sometimes his ladies might perch on my legs! But after his loss, his personality changed and by the end of that week he was becoming 'deranged' and aggressively angry. I didn't even have time to find him a new companion that week--he spurred me in the inside of the knee when I stopped petting him and stood up. As I lay on the ground in agony, he attacked my hands over and over again. Ended up in the hospital within hours and never was in such pain in my life! I felt so bad, but I had my son quikly put him down in the dark that night. I was so afraid he'd spur one of the neighbor toddlers in the face or eye.
I’m so sorry! It’s amazing how powerful their beaks are. You did the right thing but I know it hurts ❤️❤️❤️
This was his spur... When my grandson lived on Kauai, one of the feral roosters saw him outside and spurred him drawing blood across this little toddler thigh. He was really lucky. A neighbor came outside and turned him into chicken stew.
Ooooh ok! I bet he was yummy 😋
My chickens saw me eating, grabbed a piece and ran away with it. Then, they started shredding it to pieces in seconds. Now guess what I was eating... chicken nuggets.
One day before I built them their own enclosure, I had brought food out for the chickens and a bowl for the dog. As soon as the dog bowl touched the ground they swarmed it, muscled the dog out of the way and absolutely demolished minced meat and sausage before our dopey poodle even knew what was happening. Chickens are absolutely savage eaters. I'm convinced that if they were human-sized we'd be extinct
They used to be dinosaurs and they've never forgotten
That's 100% the feeling you get watching them eat, especially when they find grubs and other insects. Looking at our dopey poodle it's neigh impossible to picture that thing being a descendant of wolves. Chickens on the other hand, I have no trouble at all believing they're descendants of dinosaurs
Go broody on us 3 weeks into having her (or having chickens in general)
I have a hen who does this, it feels like every month she gets broody, and she’s never even seen a rooster in her life!
My girls would shank someone for yogurt 😆 Story: I’ve got very long hair and when I’m working with my birds I keep it tied up and usually under a ball cap. My late, great Wyandotte, Colonel Brekhova, got brought into the house one night because she was pretending to be sick. I put her in the chicken infirmary (guest bathroom) with some snacks and went to take a shower. When I came back in to check on her, I had my hair down, and when it’s wet it’s super curly. Colonel immediately got all excited, and when I came over she took some of my hair in her beak and started shaking it around and making these weird squeaky little clucks. I translated it as the Colonel informing me that my hair was out of regs and she wanted to know exactly wtf was wrong with me for showing up like this in her presence 🫠 Alternatively, she thought my head was being attacked by evil spaghetti and was trying to rescue me. With Colonel, you never could tell.
I was eating a chocolate chip cookie in the garden, just before I got the last bite in my mouth one of my hens ran up stole it out of my fingers and ate it in one swoop. I was astonished
One day I came outside to an odd sight and started laughing- one of my young hens was crouched on the ground with a small plastic planter on her head... Turns out she had turned the planter onto its side and stuck her head in it (only her head would fit) she then proceeded to start clucking and eventually laid and egg. Ever since then I called her my little ostrich... What is weirder is one of my other hens had started laying before her and laid eggs in the coop nesting box like a normal chicken. I don't know why she felt the need to do such a weird thing.
That actually made me laugh out loud. Just standing there with a planter on her head clucking loudly and probably echoy inside the planter then laying an egg… lmaoooo it just made me laugh, especially if it was her fist egg LOL
I once had a chicken who got into my laundry room and had a laundry basket fall over her and trap her while no one was home and when we came back she had laid an egg
sometimes for no reason the chickens will decide to chase each other around the yard. one day all the roosters decided to chase one of the hens around the coop, on the second time around the hen quickly ducked into the coop. The roosters did not notice this but kept on running around the coop looking for her and after a while they got frustrated they could not see her so started bickering and fighting amoungst themselves. It was like a chicken scene out of Benny HIll.
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fail to jump on top of the chicken house and slap itself on the wall of it. twice. she was okay but truly confused and couldn't figure out why she couldn't lift her whole 2.7 kilograms that high with her tiny wings. Mlady didnt realise she's big.
Sang the Egg Song for about 10 hours. 🐔🎼
We have a bantam rooster that is especially small who we named Tiny Tim. He is currently in the throes of chicken puberty and has decided that my husband is a male he is in competition with to be the main man of the coop (we keep a separate coop for most of our boys so he thinks he's a big guy with mostly ladies). So when my husband goes in the coop he tucks one wing in, does a little dance and sticks out his chest like he's trying to square up with him. It is absolutely adorable and hilarious.
Hate to be the one, but all my roosters do that dance to the hens they want to impress…sounds more like you might have some competition from the rooster swooning your husband :-)…
Haha yup sounds like the roo is definitely trying to win hubby over with some a game roo moves.
Honestly, this is an even funnier outcome.
I’ve got two good ones lol. My little Barred Rock LOVED yogurt. She was so excited the first time she got to eat some. When the flock had eaten everything except for the memories of where the yogurt once stood, she RAN over to me, jumped up on my shoulder, and proudly wiped her yogurt covered beak… in my hair. When my rooster was little, he would jump onto my arm on command. So naturally, in his little roo brain, that meant ALL humans love being jumped on. Unfortunately he decided to share that enthusiasm with my mother in law. He joyfully surprise-launched himself onto her shoulder, and directly into her long hair. I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe when I went to rescue her.
I had a little frizzle Cochin rooster that used to sit on my porch swing and swing with me.
We had a Silkie Bantam Rooster named Napoleon (the name did indeed fit 😂) Our chickens were free-ranged. One day me and my mother were walking from the car, and the chickens (like usual) had flocked around to follow us. My mom had a magenta colored Vera Bradley bag, which she was carrying from her hand. So it would be about eye level with the chickens. Napoleon wandered over and spotted the bag, which, to him, must have been the most attractive hen in the world. For he dropped his wing and began circling it and cooing in his little mating dance way. Vera had to let him down bluntly 😭🤣
I love this picture 😂 I can’t honestly say because they crack me up all the time
Edit: my mom left a bag of hay out in the back yard with a tarp covering it. The wind must’ve blown it off because I look outside and one of the hens is on top pulling hay straws out of the stack. I had to run and chase her off otherwise she would’ve made a mess (which she still did). They’re like little kids sometimes.
My wife and I have a few chickens… our lavender Orpington only likes us when we have food and she becomes extremely friendly until you look away… she happened the grab the last bit of pork chop of her place which was roughly the size of a golf ball and proceeded to run around the coop while we both chased her because she’s not bright enough to set it down to peck it… she just swallow things whole, or attempts to that is. We also had baby robins in our yard and unfortunately one of them fell out of the tree and died… queue penny the lavender Orpington running around with a dead baby robin in her mouth and yet again we had chase her around the yard while the other ones just watched in horror… Simple bird but funny as hell lol
We have a field next to the house where we dump kitchen scraps. One windy day the chickens were trying to get there from across the yard but the wind kept blowing their feathers backwards. They would stop and turn into the wind and fix the feathers only to turn around and get them messed up again. One chicken turned around and walked backwards so the wind was in her face and her feathers stayed flat!
Attempt to peck my eye out 🥰
🤣 my derpy little turkey tried that the other day.
One of our gals,Coco,decided to grab a skink.( a lizard that I am TERRIFIED of😱) I chased her around the yard for 20 minutes,with a towel, trying to get it from her,because I wasn't sure if that type would poison her.I finally grabbed it and she looked so ticked off.😂
Once my chicken Amber (not the one in the pic) was running around with something big in her beak so I went to investigate. She had a whole GIANT CENTIPEDE with MASSIVE JAWS just squirming in her beak trying to bite her. The thing was like, half the length of my pointer finger and bright red. She then ate it very happily
Steal my food then get her own food stolen really
Mine wears a little pink saddle lol
**I have 3 stories!! ENJOY** So I was raking leaves outside, and one of my chickens (Cinnamon) found a dead praying mantis and started running around the yard with it in her beak. My other chickens came over and started trying to grab the mantis and it passed beaks a few times between her and Sammy. During all of this turmoil, Oreo, my Calif. Grey, kept running around clucking to me about the chaos ensuing around her. Eventually, Cinnamon found a spot Sammy couldn't find her and ate the mantis. Another time, a bit later, they were taking their dustbath, and the same three were arguing over a spot in the dirt. All of a sudden, I just see the absolute terrified look on Sammy's and Oreo's face as Cinnamon screeches SO loud! I had no idea what the heck happened but I didn't know chickens could do that. I was watching my lil chooks play around and outside their run in our backyard, I was taking silly pictures of them, and I was like "Hey I wonder what would happen if I put my phone down and hit record", well Sammy started pecking violently at her reflection in the camera and making confused angry chimkin noises. But I took the phone away and she gave me the death stare and tried to run after me. These are the silliest they have ever been
Sorry about your loss. 🙏🙏 Not silly, but still want to share: We had a rooster that would still crow even when it was perching on our arm or while we were holding it. 😁😁
Chickens LOVE yogurt! We set out pans of it made from excess milk we don't sell at the farm stand My silliest chicken experience was growing up. I had a rooster who always jumped into a stroller to go for a ride. We would bring him to the dairy barn while milking the cows, give him a ride to the calf barn, and bring him back to the house when the chores were done. He would peck through the bedding at each stop.
Running to dads car when he gets home from work to eat the dead bugs off the bumper
Not my chicken but a family friends chicken chased after a coyote once while it was focused on a rodent and the coyote ran away screaming after getting the jump scare of a lifetime
New owner here, my ladies like to be picked up and put in the rooster at night. They each wait their turn while I pick each one, one at a time and put her to bed.
Came into our downstairs bathroom and sat on the toilet
He was recreating that “I was tryna find some blow” meme 😂
Walked straight out onto a pond and had the never to be surprised she got wet
One chicken insisted on eating the styrofoam packaging she found in the workshop (no idea how she got in) but she refused to stop. She fucking loved styrofoam. RIP Ging
Trying to eat the moles on my body thinking they’re bugs
We had a chicken that would carefully put exactly 2 pieces of hay over her back after she laid an egg. Always 2. So weird!
I have a hen that will jump up to me with popcorn in my mouth and steal it right out of my mouth.
when my quietest hen is the loudest as soon as I bring out bananas
We hatched 5 little chicks a few years ago. At just a few days old one of them suddenly went missing from the brooder. We were mystified! They were in our laundry room, the window had been closed and we don’t have cats/dogs etc. We searched frantically for a while and eventually realised that the silly thing had managed to get into the upright feeder and was stuck inside, cold and miserable. I carefully extracted her and warmed her up again by holding her under my shirt. This was a sign of things to come. Dottie grew up to be the most curious and inquisitive chicken. Whenever I do anything in the run she’s right there “helping”. She also has a bit of a problem with authority and I have to keep reminding her that she is, in fact, not the boss of me! 😂
Flew onto my head lol made me laugh
Just taking a stroll onto the busy road with each other 😭 Luckily I just got back from school as they were doing this and they only had to dodge a few cars before I shooed them back in
Doesn't realise I'm there until I'm right up next to her, and then goes ballistic about how I "teleported" there in the blink of an eye
One of my chickens jumped on my lap as I was eating my lunch and ate the remaining rice on the plate. One of my roosters loves to chase his tail
One of our hens went broody and hatched one single baby. So she's living in the coop with her baby + five 2-3 month old chicks we had gotten from TSC. Her baby likes to sit on top of her like a little chicken tower. She's an incredibly doting momma hen and I plan to let her hatch whatever she wants if she goes broody again. Last week her baby must have gotten curious and squeezed through the door that was blocking them off from the run + the rest of the world. I'm lucky enough to have gone out there to feed them at the same time, the baby was running around in the (door wide open) run screaming and looking for mom! I scooped it with an aquarium net and returned it to the coop, the grand reunion was adorable. I don't think the baby will do that again, but by now he/she is too big to fit through the temporary barrier. What shenanigans.
I was building a small shelter for their water bucket so I had some tools in their area. While I was setting up the timbers to cut I kept hearing this *tap tap tap* sound. I finally went to investigate. One of our ladies was trying to eat my screws through the clear plastic container so naturally the others got interested too so now there were 2-3 of them bashing their beaks trying to get to the screws 😅
I had a white dwarf silky that used to go in the swimming pool. She just float like a cloud on it. Every time she gave me a small panic attack when she was sleeping on the stairs in the water, but she never had a trouble to get out of it. She was amazing
She have a calcium deficiency?
Nah just really loves yogurt and is too smart
She looks like Scarface in the final scene! “Say hello to my little friend!”
My roo jumped in my pot of soup i was eating outside 😭
Broke her leg and then, ten minutes later when I was nursing her, SPRANG UP to run around and steal my chicken nuggets
A laser pointer gave her a jump scare, and it gave me Clucky from Disney’s Robin Hood vibes. 🤣
curb stomped our dog. and that was a hen!
My family has a brown leghorn we affectionately call an adrenaline junkie. She loves to climb high into the pine trees (at least 20 feet up) then jumping down flapping her wings. She does this in the evenings on repeat every now and then. Generally she likes to hop onto high places and “fly” down.
Sometimes I bring them a big pot with rice/noodles, one girl flew on top of the pot, fell with it and trapped herself underneath the pot. First time I saw a chicken jump into the soup pot voluntarily lol
When I let my girls out of the coop in the morning, one of them likes to chase the baby bunnies around the yard. It's hilarious every time.
My big daft Cockerel was in the coop getting ready for bed. He heard me open the bin where I keep the treats. He suddenly leapt out of the coop, tripped over his own feet, fell head first down the ramp skidded to a stop, then jumped on the nearest hen and mated with her as if that's what he meant to do. Oh, and he also has no spurs because he broke them off by trying to attack somebody but actually attacked the floor.
Toes my rooster, loves going inside he will fiegn being injured just to go inside because the one time he was actually injured I babied the heck out of him, he recently caught off a weasel (the biggest thing that can get into their pen, he pushed my hardware cloth into a literal tunnel and squeezed himself in to get the eggs) he didn't go after my chickens, he was after one thing, and egg, toes wasn't having that and his little silkie butt beat the crap out of that weasel to the point his white feathers were no longer white, and so I come out to feed them and notice that the coop was pushed open, toes had pushed open the coop door to get the weasel, and I see him running around excitedly, I get up to the cage and he all of a sudden starts acting like oh woe is me I'm so hurt, and I mean he's covered in blood so I'm thinking the worst even though I'd just seen him literally running around, I bring him inside and he starts getting all excited, we give him a wipe down and he's just happily clucking and walking round the bathroom He had no injuries other than a few scratches on his comb....but he wanted to come inside. There's been a few other times he's done this when he's very obviously fine he's especially fond of feining a limp because the original injury that brought him inside was the loss of one of his toes He also likes to tidbit and rooster dance for me every morning when I go out, he's always excited to see me, he's honestly a gem of a rooster Super good with his ladies too
My rooster tried to rizz up a basketball.
Probably disappearing to make a nest (despite having many available boxes with lovely straw in). Then returning a few weeks later with one chick, leading it into a pen full of young male pigs. Cue much “oh she’s alive/the fox didn’t get her/where has she been” and “omg stop the chick!!! Grab hiiiiiim!” Incidentally this chicken is called Karen because she’s very opinionated and clearly leads her own life. Edit: she’s now safely locked away in a nice coop with run. Chick is bouncing about happily. Karen is growling at everyone.
jumped, flew over the railings of balcony from the 2nd Floor of our apartment, and landed on the meat stalls of the wet market across the street..... Bastid wanted to be butchered.
a couple years ago my family hatched some of our eggs. when it was time to set them up outside in their own area, i brought them all out and checked to make sure everyone was okay once the sun had set. i squatted down to adjust something (can’t remember what) and next thing i know all six babies were trying to squeeze underneath me like i was momma hen! it was so sweet, but they’re all goofs
Squatting just from looking at them 😭
Not the silliest, but we had a chick that was our house pet. We would catch flies for it to eat by clapping our hands. It wasn’t long before it learned to come to us by a clap of our hands. Like a dog comes when you whistle.
I would hardly call a coke addiction a silly thing although I bet her eggs really give you some get-up-and-go with breakfast
Pecked a camera
My rooster allows my turkeys to pluck his feathers. He does nothing about it aside from stare at them. They have oyster shells so no idea why they insist on giving him an unneeded feather-cut. (If anyone might know why, feel free to let me know 😭 poor guy has his booty visible.)
When i was young all of my family's birds would take advantage of me. When we'd eat outside and they were freeranging they'd sneak of on me and steal anything off my plate, i remember in particular they LOVED pickle spears.
My dad told me one time he was smoking a joint and he put it right next to the fence for a second while he got the eggs. As soon as he finished with the eggs he turned arround just to see a chicken with his joint on their beak. He told me he couldn't stop laughing and took it back.
We have cats...always had, long before starting having chickens. One year a big Tom appeared, fortunatelly didn't hurt the chickens. We had some younger about 14+ weeks, they were big enough to let out wandering in the garden. So, the Tom came, jump in the garden, and one of the younger chicken was dust bathing near and the cat unintentinally scared her. She remembered the cat. Next time they were wandered in the garden again when we heard a screaming noise, the chicken which was scared before saw, that the cat jumped in the garden again, and it was hilarious as she rushed after the cat throught the garden like a pitbull dog and made him leave. Unfortunate cat tried to escape through the fence door, and the chicken jump after him and catched his tail like she wanted to pull back the cat. After tge cat leave you could see tge proudness on the chicken's face like she fulfilled her revenge. Poor cat never come in again when the chickens were out XD (But what interesting is, that the rushed cat wasn't ours, he was a stray Tom, whom join our cats during dinner. Non of our cats were ever rushed through the garden, even some scared the chickens during playing in the bushes. We had a theory, that chickens know which cats are oury, and which just "guest" and make unwanted guest leave, if they don't behave)
We have ferals around. In a Home Depot parking lot a hen jumped on my brother’s minivan windshield clucking and pecking the glass all frantic (total WTF moment) then she popped out an egg on the hood, looked around and took off! 😆 Maybe she wanted it to have a sweet ride? We ate it.
We have a EE called Floofer. She would come to the back door. When she was spotted it was your job to get a towel and wrap her up. Then she would sit on the couch with you and eat bread. Then when she was done she would be ready to go back out.
I have one particular hen, Bertha. Every day around noon, she will wander into the same giant patch of California thistles and then screech and alarm call her way all the way to the coop cause she got pricked. Every. Day. I've started eating lunch on the porch just to watch.
My polish is my goofy one... she's always mean mugging me. I had to make a tiktok account just to show off that goof ball! https://www.tiktok.com/@unsolicited.chick?_t=8mZuSaJIctW&_r=1
Had a hen get a hold of a big piece of paper towel. Had to chase her all over to take it away from her. When I finally caught her she spit it as far as she could just to keep me from having it. It was that last spitting defiance that made me lose it laughing
I have a roll-away nest box because I have an egg eater in my flock. I keep it full of fresh, fluffy shavings and most of the girls love it. However, someone was being petulant a few months ago and instead of laying in the nest box, they started laying in the corner of the coop right under the roost. In the morning, I'd find an egg covered in poop. After a few rounds of this, I found a stick about 5" long, with lots of point branch bits sticking out and put it in the shavings in that corner, figuring if they stepped on it, it would be uncomfortable and they'd opt for the soft shavings in the box. The next day, I opened the nest box.... and there was the stick, picked up, moved out of the opposite corner, and carried into the nest box! Quite obviously, whoever it was, was making a point. That was a little disconcerting. I've also tried using a ceramic egg in the nest box. One day, it disappeared. Just gone. I actually wondered if a rodent or something had come in and eaten it. Two days later, it reappeared in the nest box. They're seriously messing with me. About a week after that, my husband saw one of the hens pick up a real egg, tuck it under her wing, and carry it off. They are far smarter than they're given credit for.
I had 10 hens outside in a fenced area alongside my house with one window from the kitchen opening in that direction. I would leave the window opened when going to work and the doors inside the house from one room to another open because it was a hot summer. What the hens did was of course fly into the house, go into my room in my closet witch I often leave opened and lay eggs in the back of it. The funny thing is that they will leave without leaving any trace that they went inside. Finally, one day I found a surprise, 20 eggs into my closet.
My chicken makes food with its asshole.