Hi everyone,
One of my chickens had me cracking up today so I thought I'd share the story. I started free ranging my chickens during the day about a month ago. Every night I herd them into their house and do a head count, tonight I kept on only counting 19 instead of the usual 20. I searched all over outside and I was starting to think she was a goner. I have a small rubbermaid container that I keep filled with DE and dirt for them to dust in. They had dusted all of the dirt out so I took it out of their house this morning to refill it but forgot and left it sitting face up on the grass outside. So anyway, I'm about to give up looking for the chicken when I notice the container is upside down. As I get closer I see a shadow through the translucent sides that looks suspiciously like a chicken. As I crouched down next to it I hear confused little waac waac waacs coming from inside. I turn it over and their she is looking completely confused at how she got herself into this mess. Silly chicken number 20 must have decided to investigate the box jumped up on the side and the thing flipped over and trapped her. It's only about 5 inches deep so she had to lay down inside there all day. She's lucky it was cool and mostly cloudy today or she would have been a cooked chicken. I just think it's funny the situations you get in when your brain is the size of a pea.
Funny chicken story
i have lost up to 10 silkies at a time before that was a quater of my flock i was so worried anyway 21 days later out pop 10 silkies with about 10 chicks each that took a lot to handle but i could just not beleive that they all wanted to brood at the same time so may little fluff balls good thing silkies are rare over here so it did not take me long to find themm new homes i have about 50 silkies and 12 laying hens
Curiosity doesn't always just get the cat!!! I came home one to see one of my sheep running around the lot with a bucket on her head! The handle had flipped up behind her ears and she couldn't shake it loose! Boy was it "fun" trying to catch her!!! She couldn't see you so the sound of footsteps sent her running!!! Took three of us to finally get the bucket off her head!
My pygmy goat Mr. Pickles decided to stick his head through a hole in the bottom of the door to the feed room. I heard him braying loudly and walked up to seeing him trying to pul his horned head out of the hole. You had to be there, but it really was hilarious. That's what he gets for trying to be sneaky and get into the feed.
All I can think of now, is the sheep with the bucket on it's head and the chicken trap. Thanks, I needed that today.
One day I came home to find one of the feral cats who lived around my house, with a cat food can firmly stuck, on his face....it was a hot day, and the can was really warm, he must have been miserable....I was able to catch the cat, and remove the can...a couple of days later, he did it again. (not the brightest cat in the world)
lol! I think we could write a book on how our animals have kept us thoroughly entertained over the years!
I was milking my first goat(alpine/saanan) and didn't have a stanchion set up for her. So my son,who was 9 at the time, would hold her collar while I milked her. Well, one day he was standing in front of her and she decided she was leaving asap! She bent her head down, and ran between his legs. He ended up clinging on to her back as she ran off with him!!! It was such a funny sight watching him bounce along! We were laughing so hard it was hard to catch her!
We let our chickens out from time to time to free range around the yard. One evening we were making sure they were all back in their houses and discovered one was missing. We looked and looked and called her and searched (in the dark) trying to find her. My son was fearing a cat got her because she's a small bantam. When my husband came we told him we couldn't find her anywhere. He asked if we looked on the porch. There she was sitting right on the edge of the porch. We had passed right by her several times. If chickens could laugh, she probably would have been laughing at us.
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One of my friends has a dog that is famous for eating pantyhose. That's annoying in and of itself, but the funny part is when she looks out the window and sees her dog with it coming out the other end, and he's ties himself to a tree or rock with it! He'll try to run away and the nylons will stretch and stretch!
He was also xrayed after being hit by a car. He was fine, but it turned out he had eaten 5 small lightbulbs. So he had to have surgery anyway!
We put silicone cauking in the bottom of a sink to keep it from leaking. When we came back a couple of hours later and we noticed that one of goats(my favorite even though she could always find trouble) had silicone stuck to her chin. She was not happy when it was taken off!! Just like getting a wax job! Not sure if she ate any but other than a hairless chin she was fine!
BackyardHens, it's funny what the animals will eat. We also had a goat that we had x-rayed and the vet called me in look at the film. She had swallowed a couple rather large rocks; she was a small goat we couldn't believe she got them down! The vet said they wouldn't hurt her.
I don't think I'll ever get over the dog story. We used to have a siamese cat who ate tinsil off the christmas tree. One day the family vet was visiting, looked down at the cat (who had just come from the litter box) and said "I see you're decorating the cat for christmas". I thought my mother would die from embarasment.