Solitary chicken - need advice

[fluffyknickers]

Do your chickens have their moment of silliness! My Nugget is particularly a bit daft and a sandwich short of a picnic.

 

Couple of examples -

 

Yesterday I filled the Grub up with fresh pellets and they all three went for the same hole, Nugget then realised there was another hole she could eat out of, however she actually couldnt work out how to get to it!!! So instead of walking round the two she CLIMBED over the both!!!

 

Also, when i bring out their treat like porridge in the evening if Nugget is in the run sitting on the cube wheel she is so desperate to get out she cant work out she has to walk out the door so she spends a while bumping the wire on the run as if she can walk through it.

 

They also all have a penchant for my toenails at the moment as they are painted red.

 

What silly things do yours do?

 

Michelle

Edited April 27, 2009 by Guest

[Griffin]

Valerie is my thickest chicken Sometimes they're allowed to play in the dogs garden as well as their own and when I give them their corn or veg I put it in their garden and pull the netting back across. Valerie, almost without fail, will not remember she has to walk to the end of the netting to get back to her garden She'll run up and down frantically, hurling herself at the netting and I usually have to 'rescue' her.

[Valkyrie]

Apache tried to eat my shoelaces a couple of months ago. They will all race for a slug and then try to eat it, shake it away (ugh nasty slimey thing) and proceed to wipe their beaks on the grass, stones, leaves - anything - while the slug happily makes it's way back to my veggies!

Today while it was raining heavily, there they were whingeing for the greenhouse door to be opened. So I opened it and they promptly walked away and sulked on the grass instead.

[katieadams]

Our daft Beaky keeps pulling at the hairs on my husband's legs!! Must look like worms or something, she's really persistant !! At least it keeps her off her last obsession - my welly shoes!

[atsw]

One of our previous chooks used to jump up at my youngest daughter (who was about two at the time), and peck at the bands which held her 'pig-tails' in place. I'm sure she was convinced that there was a juicy pink worm holding my daughters hair up in bunches .

 

Andrew

[mags]

cassie found abit of glass and raced off with it with the others running after , and me trying to get hold of her to get it off her

 

They have been helping me garden and the glass must have been well in the soil

 

mags

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I put up extra Omlet netting which goes round two whole sides of the garden. When I go out to get them back into the WIR they bounce off the netting in their desperation to get to me across the lawn, obviously failing to remember the "way out" .

 

I have video'd it so will post it when I get a chance .

[meezers]

I leave the door to the WIR ajar when they are out in the garden, when it's treat time , they are usually waiting for me on the door step, but they know they get their treats in the run, so ,they see me , mad scramble to be first in the run. Someone, usually Pepper finds herself on the 'wrong' side of the open door, instead of going 3 steps around the door and into the run, she runs right around the outside of the run to approach the door from the right side - if I'm not stood there ( cracking up laughing ) to prevent her, she usually overshoots the door and does a 2nd lap of the run before she gets in - by which time the others have had the best treats