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Post by kigerfan on Jul 13, 2009 17:29:29 GMT -5
I have a beautiful, very friendly rather large Buff Orpington chicken. Today, she was acting very strange, very unsettled, she kept on going up into the box to lay, then coming back out and running away. I had to go and retrieve her and bring her back up. Finally I felt her back end very carefully and in doing that, found out that she had an egg stuck sideways and it didn't want to come out. So I very carefully manipulated it so that it was facing straight and poof! out it came, much to my girls relief.
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Post by DianneC on Jul 13, 2009 18:37:24 GMT -5
oh dear, no wonder she was so perturbed. I love it that you noticed!
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Post by lindad on Jul 13, 2009 20:39:38 GMT -5
That is one lucky chicken that you are so in tune! Egg bound birds die eventually!
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Post by angelsdream on Jul 14, 2009 11:26:53 GMT -5
heehee!! Thats funny, bless her heart.. Id be freakin as well, thank goodness you were there to save the "egg"!!
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Post by kigerfan on Jul 14, 2009 13:39:07 GMT -5
She's all back to her normal self today. She's begging for food and such. One of my chickens is a mouser! She actually caught, killed and ate a mouse yesterday. I wouldn't have believed it. But she sure did. I'm not complaining  anything that keeps the mouse population down is a good thing. Now all I need to do is teach her how to catch, kill and eat squirrels because they're making a bumper crop lately. |
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Jul 24, 2009 5:59:08 GMT -5
Good Lord...that poor girl!  |
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Post by kigerfan on Jul 24, 2009 15:30:14 GMT -5
Today I heard a wierd sound and went out to see what was up. That same chicken seems to have decided she was a rooster and had started to try to crow, it sounded like a sick crow but she did a half way decent job |
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Post by kimk on Jul 24, 2009 15:58:37 GMT -5
I've decided, of all my chickens, my buff orpingtons are retarded. They insist on one certain nest box, and if it's occupied, they will wait on the perch right outside that box, or they will try to cram themselves in with whomever is occupying it at the time. If they wait too long, the dummies lay thier egg while sitting on the perch outside and SPLAT! ( there ARE 3 other boxes they can use, but no-o-o )
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Post by kigerfan on Jul 24, 2009 16:08:05 GMT -5
I have two buff orpington babies, five delaware babies and one easter egger baby and they are entertaining as heck, especially the delawares. the easter egger is a snuggle bum, if I sit down she's in my lap snuggling and quickly sleeping. The delawares love pecking at my feet and climbing on them and running after me, the orpington babies are only now starting to get more tame with me. I have one adult buff orpington, one adult rhode island red and one adult barred rock. Chickens have more personality than I ever would have imagined and Firefly really likes them
I moved their coop over next to Firefly's stall and now when she sleeps she sleeps standing nearest to the coop
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Post by fantasykiger on Jul 27, 2009 11:42:44 GMT -5
Are chickens not a silly bunch. While I tell folks I am not the biggest fan of the stinky birds, I love their eggs and will not eat store bought. I built them a lovely coupe fondly named the 'Chicken Club' and planted a yard with trees, flowers, grass and lilac bushes to make their home inviting and nice smelling. They have a protective fenced in run right next to my fruit orchard attached to the coupe.
But there always seems to be one crazy one in the bunch, on the outside running around the property is one lone hen. A barred-rock name Crazy Chicken. She will stalk you, she is only looking for love. Should you spin around and take a step toward her she will bow down promptly...LOL. Everyone that comes to visit alerts us to the fact we have a chicken on the loose.
The fact is she is anti-social should we put her in with the rest of the chickens she will commence to chicken killing or giving it her best shot. She is a nasty bird with a love of people not so much for her common chicken. We did attempt after two years to re-intergrate her, thinking she might of had a change of heart....nope not so.
kigerfan ..I am so very glad you thought to take a peek under your hen, because your right they do need help sometimes. I just had to put in a ramp for my old chickens that can no longer make the step up easiely from the coupe to the outdoor run.
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anything that keeps the mouse population down is a good thing. Now all I need to do is teach her how to catch, kill and eat squirrels because they're making a bumper crop lately.
