What funny things do your chickens do?

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2010, 10:59 »
One of our hens jumps on OH's back when he leans into the coop to clean it out. Unfortunately she never does it when I have a camera to hand.

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2010, 14:17 »
I have no idea what type of hen mine are....they're just....brown.  Any idea what type that is?   :nowink:

I can tell them all apart though, they all have their individual character.

Why do they do the crouching thing when you go to pick them up?
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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2010, 14:27 »
practically any hen with silkie in them will go broody (I have lots of silkie crosses and they go broody at the dop of an egg  :lol:). Even the odd ex batt will go broody which I think is lovely considering their previous life  :)
Staffies are softer than you think.

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2010, 09:13 »
sit on the kitchen windowsill looking into the kitchen, just in case we have some food for them. no point in closing the bottom half of the kitchen stable door, they get over, make sure the kitchen door is shut, before you let them into the garden, they can make it back into the kitchen before you do, and then finish the dogs food.

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2010, 10:35 »
yuck! dog food? that's hilarious!

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2010, 12:23 »
RAW the crouching thing is simply submitting to the cockerel/ dominant person for mating.

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2010, 13:15 »
I hope they don't think I want to mate with them. Mine do that all the time when I go to stroke them, especially Gertie!  She always does a funny little tap-stamp dance before she crouches, like I've caught her off guard. Bless

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Re: What funny things do your chickens do?
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2010, 20:00 »
Tinker today, chasing Merlin up the path and trying to follow him through the cat flap and almost succeeding :lol:

She was most indignant when I laughed at her :lol:
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