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[Kirstine]

Squirrels! They are totally freaked and appear to think they are miniature foxes. Previous chickens hated rabbits. Do your chickens have any irrational fears?

 

Kirstine

[chick wiggle]

Broccolli ! I swear they look at me like im throwing green hand grenades at them

[karena]

The other day when it was really windy, I went out to find them all running round acting very strangely. I eventually worked out a fence panel had blown near them, and this was the cause of all the chaos . So mine are scared of moving fence panels.

[brambles]

Mine are also afraid of broccoli. And nettles hanging in their run.

[Chucky Mama]

Not entirely irrational but mine are terrified of the big red monster that cuts the lawn and scream at it as soon as they see it, well before it is started up

[chickenNutter]

Very noisy seagulls - we are by the sea. They look up and start running around shouting.

[migsy]

Nothing yet but I live in quite a noisy urban area. They aren't even spooked by the numerous local cats now.

[stoice]

A butler sink!

 

I thought I'd upgrade their dust bath from a tub trug to a butler sink I'd rescued from my Nan's garden.

It was so heavy my OH put it in the run for me while i was at work. When i got home late and went to shut them in, I couldn't understand why my girls were huddled on the floor by their shed outside. I couldn't usher them in either so had to lift them both up and place into their pop hole. I go to bed stressing I have red mite as 'why else would they not go indoors?'. Next morning when they tumble out it became clear. Obviously the sink monster from the planet kitchen had landed and must be treated with suspicion, so they bok bok bokked their heads off at 6am to tell me and all the neighbours.

 

A few handfuls of mealworms dumped in the sink eventually won them over though. Fickle things. LOL

[karena]

I do love tales of what chooks are scared of! They make me lol

[Mollie333]

The log thats been there for months being moved about so it doesn't get too muddy.

[txswanie]

Bluebirds..I had to move the feeder to the other end of the garden.

[Gelbel]

hanging sweetcorn, cabbage - so much so Madge refused to pass some to FR for over 4 hours the other week, apples, wood shavings - so they refused to lay in the nest box. A biggy is changing the colour of their feeder.

 

I give up at times.

[Blue-DiamondChick07]

My 3 year old

[..lay a little egg for me]

The black treats bowl that looks exactly like the yellow one but is black. I tried it once but they ran away from me so now it always has to be the yellow one!

[kerryegg]

Blackbirds, no others, just blackbirds.

[sari]

Blackbirds, no others, just blackbirds.

YES!! My sussexs always freeze, then bokbok in shock, when the blackbirds do that huge angry call...! I do have a very birdy garden though!

[madchickenlady]

Mine are scared of white washing. Any other colour is fine, but white washing blowing in the wind sends them shrieking in to the shrubbery

[Alis girls]

Footballs - and rightly so when there is a child on the other end

[Saronne]

Marigold gloves and racing pigeons.

 

 

Saronne x

[Griffin]

The pair of wood pigeons nesting in a tree near to their run Mr Pigeon is a very caring and attentive husband and brings gifts of food & twigs a gazillion times a day terrifying the girls each time

[karena]

I used the fence fear to my own advantage earlier. Was showing a neighbour how to feed them when I'm away, and mentioned that if she wants them to move away from the feeder, just move the fence panel slightly and they'll all run to the house. And right on queue they did

Chooks are so funny!

[cavysqueak]

A gaggle of geese flying in the classic 'V' shape overhead. I was loving it, but the chickens and the tame lady blackbird hated them!

 

.... and hot air balloons ... but they had just taken off, so they were very low ... and it was early on a Sunday morning!

 

My OH says that I forgot to mention the thing they are most afraid of .... his bike! They all run to the shed, as that is where the mealworms are kept, then they fly away clucking as they hate it!

[Lavenders_Blue]

The rake, but only when it's being carried, when I am actually doing some raking they are all in the way trying to see if I rake up any wormies

 

The strimmer.

 

The big marrow my neighbour presented me over the fence yesterday. That was very scary.

 

The vulcan bomber that flew over my house at the weekend. But in fairness, I was slightly terrified of that too!

[Valkyrie]

Water pistols (can't think why ), the spitting cobra (hose - same as the water pistol), the other day a foil helium balloon - caused untold grief until DD found it in the upper branches of a bush, apple - until the blackbird started eating it and then it was deemed safe.

Buzzards and a red tailed kite are completely ignored, but get a sparrow hawk in the vicinity and again they yell their heads off. I keep telling them that the hawk will not get them unless it wants a double hernia.

[daxigirl]

Broccolli ! I swear they look at me like im throwing green hand grenades at them

 

 

So would I, yuk!