Meet El Pollo Diablo...update: pg.7 RIP El Pollo Diablo

[jilltx]

Ahhh life at the craptastic barn ebbs ever forward. So far no major difficulties and I'm actually making friends (both human and equine)and enjoying all the space and relative quiet.

There is one little thing, well actually several little things, that bear watching:
Chickens. Lots and lots of chickens and their freakish little rooster boyfriends. One rooster in particular makes the most demonic hiss and squak if you even look in his general direction. I have dubbed him, "el Pollo Diablo" and I swear one morning his little chicken head is going to turn right around in a 360 as he spits up pea soup.

The cool thing is that my filly is REALLY getting some good exposure to things that go "baaaaCAWK" in the night. Nothing like surprising a flock of spastic cackling chickens to awaken your every sense. So far they've managed to scare me more than my filly.

I've become very adept at launching full-scale chicken tack trunk rearrangement offensives (or CTTRO's) to keep the feathered massses out of my stall and hay (yes I know they carry salmonella, hence my angst). SO far, I seem to be one step ahead and they are taking up residence elsewhere.

I must confess that these chickens do one thing that really creeps me out; they chant. I swear they sit up in the rafters while I pick my stall and they CHANT. It begins as a low rolling "bawk squak" then they all join into this rolling, low-to-high "b a w k...bawk bawk...b a w k" and the sound just escalates as all the chickens and roosters begin to chant in unison. It sounds like they're plotting a full-scale chicken rebellion. Even my filly stops munching on her hay, cocks her head (pun intended) and listens.

So chicken people, why, pray tell, so they DO this?? They're creeping me out man!!

They tell me that the FFA leases one of the barns in the fall for their animals. My next installment: Pigs and the horses that hate them. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ...oh the J O Y

[jilltx]

Ahhh life at the craptastic barn ebbs ever forward. So far no major difficulties and I'm actually making friends (both human and equine)and enjoying all the space and relative quiet.

There is one little thing, well actually several little things, that bear watching:
Chickens. Lots and lots of chickens and their freakish little rooster boyfriends. One rooster in particular makes the most demonic hiss and squak if you even look in his general direction. I have dubbed him, "el Pollo Diablo" and I swear one morning his little chicken head is going to turn right around in a 360 as he spits up pea soup.

The cool thing is that my filly is REALLY getting some good exposure to things that go "baaaaCAWK" in the night. Nothing like surprising a flock of spastic cackling chickens to awaken your every sense. So far they've managed to scare me more than my filly.

I've become very adept at launching full-scale chicken tack trunk rearrangement offensives (or CTTRO's) to keep the feathered massses out of my stall and hay (yes I know they carry salmonella, hence my angst). SO far, I seem to be one step ahead and they are taking up residence elsewhere.

I must confess that these chickens do one thing that really creeps me out; they chant. I swear they sit up in the rafters while I pick my stall and they CHANT. It begins as a low rolling "bawk squak" then they all join into this rolling, low-to-high "b a w k...bawk bawk...b a w k" and the sound just escalates as all the chickens and roosters begin to chant in unison. It sounds like they're plotting a full-scale chicken rebellion. Even my filly stops munching on her hay, cocks her head (pun intended) and listens.

So chicken people, why, pray tell, so they DO this?? They're creeping me out man!!

They tell me that the FFA leases one of the barns in the fall for their animals. My next installment: Pigs and the horses that hate them. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ...oh the J O Y

[SED]

Jilltx -- Where HAVE you placed the beauteous Luna? Chickens!!??!!

[county]

What no Guenias and Ducks!!!! LOL I do love my poultry always have had some for eggs and meat. Plus there an excellant way to control flies and bugs. All that noise is there way of trying to scare you away, poultry are pretty much sitting ducks ( pun intended ) when it comes to self defense. When there roosting they make noise in hopes there not the one thats eaten by a varmit or caught for a stew pot.

[Nikita]

I am not a chicken people. I have no idea why birds do anything. But I do have to say I laughed like hell at this post! Too funny!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

p.s. You do an amazing chicken imitation http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

AND I think I have some catching up to do to find out why you're at a new barn.

[Reynard Ridge]

jilltx,
Girlfriend, they don't like you. I'd watch your back if I were you.

That said, I like my chickens best with BBQ sauce http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif.

[5]

I have Mike the chicken(this one has a head) who beams himself in from nowhere when I grain my horses.
Unlike yours Mike is cool. He will eat out of your hand until the other smaller chickens come and run him off (mike isn't very brave he is well...you know)

Am a soft touch to anything with feathers and the fowl creatures know it.


Every time I show up I am subject to 'chick'anery and pan'hen'deling.

I have parrots so I have learned that...
1- All birds bite even if they like you.
2- You can't bite them back.
2- They know who they can bully and they will.
3- There is no such thing as a constipated bird.
4- They never run out of feathers,
5- Never throw anything edible at a flock they will call in their flocks from LA to Anchorage for a free lunch and you will be lucky to survive.

I'm sorry what was the origional question?

[mst]

We had the meanest roster at our farm when I was a kid. His name was Mr Peabody. He would wait to see you leave the house enroute to the barn and chase you. Keep in mind I was about 6 at the time. The trick was to carry a broom as a weapon. It still makes me scared of chickens. One day he teased a big rottweiler. No more Mr Peabody. My advice give them away and keep 2 girls

[LoriO]

JillTX you have brought back memories from my childhood that I have tried very hard to forget. The crazy attack rooster. OMG, when I was a kid there was one of there at a barn I boarded at. I was terrrifed of the damn thing. you just looked crosseyed at it and it would go after you. I finally had to start carrying a lunge whip around with me for protection anytime I went down to that end of the barn.

Frikin chickin was begging to become bbq!

[RAyers]

I think you need to show up with a knowing look and a bucket of KFC. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Reed

[jilltx]

SED...I am sorry to have to tell you that the beautious Luna is being boarded at a facility not 5 miles from my home. It's completely craptastic and my new mantra is, "funky but functional". It's working out better than I had hoped and Luna seems quite happy, despite the chickens in choppers.

RAyers wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I think you need to show up with a knowing look and a bucket of KFC. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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5 and Reynard Ridge:
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For the rest of us, I cry, "FOWL"!!

Nikita darling, where HAVE you been keeping yourself???

[Peggy]

We had two roosters at the barn. One chased one of the kids and she climbed up a fence to get away from him. A trainer fended him off with a rake when he tried to attack. They, uh, disappeared after the BO found out about them (it is apparently illegal to have rosters in that city).

I'm not real fond of birds myself. Maybe it was that swan that attacked me when I was about 10. The Penguin Movie was cute tho.

[Peggy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jilltx:
... chickens in choppers.
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You're wouldn't be referring to a line from the infamous Cows With Guns (http://www.cowswithguns.com/cowmovie.html) song are you??? (link has a link to watch the movie)

[jilltx]

Peggy...absolutely!

When the chickens starting chanting it's like they're UP to something... and I'm betting choppers are involved. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[monizuki]

We have chickens on our farms...we don't eat a lot of eggs, but prior to them we had a huge skeeter problem. Honestly, they would congregate and try to carry my two year old off in a big flock. Since the chickens, they've kept the bugs way down, and they tease our dogs. The dogs have a dog run, and there's the suicide chicken who won't drink out of the chicken water, she wants the dogs water. You watch her and the dogs and the chicken will have a staring contest with them...the chicken will slowly go up to the chain link, and just as quick as she shoots her head into the water bucket, the dogs make a run for it. Course, she only has to back her head 2 inches and she's out of danger, but the dogs, meanwhile, haven't learned from last time and are going full bore and body slam the fence. The chicken turns on her heel and I swear her cackling sounds more like laughter then just chicken noises at this point...

I also just love how they will make a special trip to crap on my porch, and will do their very best to sneak into the garage when I'm not looking so I end up locking them in with the dog food. Then they can pretend the are actually good fliers and try to get on my jeep, missing horribly and scratching up my door. Yup gotta love the chickens...all 14 of them.

[Susan P]

I gotta chickens, was 6 now 5, hmmm. The next day two pit bull type dogs were at the coop, I didn't let them out after one went missing. It's a good thing or I might not have any.

I ordered 6 hens for laying eggs and I think one is a rooster. They Rhode Island Reds so I don't think he'll be mean, if he gets nasty, I will pick him up and firmly explain the rules of survival at my farm. If he stays nasty he'll be sleeping out and taking his chances with the fox, hmmm.

The horse find them interesting, they walk under the horses one minute and then a horse will start to follow it and then they run. Ha ha, it's funny.

Like it was said, it gets the horses used to strange things and sounds. Now turkeys are another story, hmmm.

[mst]

the broom is the key!

[jonquilTN]

Methinks they need a reminder- tell them to go to http://www.subservientchicken.com


er wait. Maybe they are getting you back for all the "fun" things you made the subservient chicken do.

Karma's a beeee-otch man. Watch your back. Chickens don't play fair.

-Amy

[MistyBlue]

Look on the bright side...the rooster hasn't attacked you. Yet. He probably will though. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif
My all time favorite was the barn rooster who would roost in trees or on beams...never make a single cluck in warning and drop on the back of your neck when you went under him. Flapping, pecking and digging those spurs in. He was a Sniper Rooster...worst kind of rooster. They hide in high places, remain quiet and drop on the enemy out of nowhere.
The Ninja Rooster wasn't much better...he saved his attacks for full frontal ones...whilst one was mounted. Apparently one ring was HIS. He'd come out from under the announcers booth and do flying front kicks at horse chests, screaming "Karate CHOP!" every few seconds. Althugh Ninja Rooster did meet his demise when he Karate Chopped the wrong pony. Cricket took offense, grabbed Ninja in his mouth during a flying kick and swung him around a tad before flinging him into the fence. The poor pony rider was traumatized...the kid's instructor and myself were laying in the footing laughing until we cried. Seeing the pony walk off looking proud of himself with feathers stuck to his nose was even funnier!

[ChocoMare]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally quoted by Jilltx: ..."funky but functional". </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wow! Sounds just like the farm where I board. The farm owner "had" chickens too. These were quite nice, though. They were Dominicker (sp?) hens (4 of 'em) and a silky Rooster. They all caught on real quick that seeing me and the hubby walking out to the pasture with a bucket meant a free meal. All the horses, except Penny, let them peck around the feed pan. Penny made it clear that every pellet was meant for her and she'd flatten any chicken beneath her dinner-plate feet who tried to get near.

One by one, though, the local predators took their tool. First one hen, then another, then the rooster till we were down to one lone chicken: Alice. She was around for quite a while until Mr. Chicken Hawk saw his opportunity for a take-out meal. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif All that was left was a 1/2 mature egg and some feathers. Poor Alice.

Thanks for the story, though. Made me start the day off with a good laugh!

[J Swan]

Never turn your back on poultry or goats.

[topsecretmoon]

I am fairly new to this forum but OMG, this has just made my morning and brought out so many "fond" (NOT) chicken memories!Hee Hee! Loved the COWS WITH GUNS video guys. Thanks!

There is one little thing, well actually several little things, that bear watching:
Chickens.

[chai]

jil, you have to watch out for those roosters! Just ask my 15 year old son who was chased around the house by a Foghorn Leghorn lookalike I was foolish enough to rescue. That evil rooster had been taped inside a waste basket and left on the loading dock of my feed store and I felt bad for him. As soon as I got him home, I realized the waste basket was not such a bad idea! He was huge and mean and despite my efforts to befriend him, he would attack me at every chance,the little ingrate. I made him a big pen and he even had a little hen for company, but he was still a miserable cuss. When he was picked off by a fisher cat this past spring, I have to admit I didn't shed one tear and I am a true animal lover. My kids were so afraid of him, they did a dance of joy.
Just watch out for hens roosting in your horse's stall. Twelve years ago, one of my mares developed a virus in her eye and the vet said it was from chickens roosting in her stall. It was nasty but she recovered.

[ESG]

I like chickens when they know their place - either in their coop, or on my plate. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

That said, I did board for a short time at a farm where they had chickens. The hens (no roosters, thank god http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ) had a roofless chain link enclosure that was a "coop". There was one Dominecker (sp?) hen that was a regular escapee. Fortunately, she was also a sweetie; if you walked up to her slowly, she'd stand still and let you pick her up and put her back in the pen. I actually got quite fond of her, and would carry her around and pet her like I did the barn cats (who, incidently, never had the stones to mess with the hens).

[Susan P]

This is the best thread. I like my chickens and I do eat chicken but I can't eat mine, no heart for that. Besides, mine are for eggs only. I can't believe it, I think one of the so called hens turned out to be a rooster, he crows a little, does anyone know? He's very quiet He's cocka doodle doos very quiet but he's very young unless the hens can do that, I just don't know. The chickens are about 4 months old.

I am missing one chicken in broad daylight so far. I'm glad the horses aren't afraid of them, they seem compatable.

[Dusty]

J Swan - "Never turn your back on poultry or goats."

OMG, how true!!! I was asked to "chicken sit" for 3weeks and gained my first exposure to the beasts. They would chase me to the chicken chow bucket then practically attack me while I was trying to dump it their stupid little trough. I finally started bringing my dog with me to run interference so I could get through this horrible job without being bombarded.

[Deb413]

OMG--I am horse/chicken sitting this week also. The chickens are more trouble than the horses http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Seems someone "dropped" their egg and it broke into their water-that was fun cleaning out with a territorial rooster. Man-they hurt then they peck a bare leg. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

The day before, one met me in the drive way--I have no idea how it got out. And yesterday one was roosted in the horse barn? It's been fun trying to get them back into the coop area without freeing the others.

They are quite entertaining to watch, especially when they run http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[jonquilTN]

(singing a little tune....)

"Raise your hands, Raise your voice."
"Give the Chickens another choice".

(said in the throaty Diana Ross voice"
"Tell the children...of the world.....to tell the chickens....that we're coming."

-Musicians for Free Range Chickens. SNL circa 1980's


-Amy

[Phaxxton]

Hi, my name is Phaxxton, and I'm deathly afraid of chickens.

(((Hi, Phaxxton)))

The very first barn I worked at as an instructor (in college) had a barn yard filled with chickens and roosters and goats and some other animals as well. The chickens used to FREAK me out, but I always pretended to be brave so I wouldn't pass on my chicken-phobia to the kids.

There was one nasty rooster in particular. Not sure what type he was, but he was black with a shiney, greenish tint to him. He's have been beautiful... if he wasn't Satan incarnate!
He used to chase me, try to get into the tack room, peck at me, and I swear he just had it in for me.

One day, I'm alone in the tack room. The tack room is a free-standing structure, a dark little wooden room up about 3 steps from the yard. It was a BRIGHT, sunny NC summer day outside and inside the tack room was shady. I had my back to the door, trying to find something. A chill came over me and I turned around slowly. The lights outside are blinding and out of nowhere (I swear in slow motion) that d@mn black chicken comes up the stairs, wings flapping. I was frozen in fear. It was like something out of Hitchcock's The Birds. I screamed and ran out of the tack room away from the stupid bird.

I was so embarassed... I think I had chicken for dinner that night on purpose!

Don't even get me started on the guinea hens...

[FindersKeepers]

There are chickens where I am boarding now. Most of them saty in their little home, but there are about 3 that feel they have the run of the farm. They are nice chickens...though they do ind of creep me out...like little fluffy dinosaurs. My mare is terrified of them. Looks at them like I took her to the circus (she looks at mini's the same way)

THey are definately up to no good with that chanting...it is definately time for a little barbeque at the barn...or at least KFC with a friend. Let them know you have the upper hand and you're not afraid to eat them.

[In the Air]

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Wnen I was a wee young rider. Well maybe not so young, I used to keep my horse at Melanie Smith's Mother's farm. They had LOTS of chickens and mean roosters like nobodies business. Those deranged picnic basket escapees (as in should be lunch) had it in for Melanie's sister, Sunday Smith and used to lay in wait for her to come around. Ooh could she run fast. Mrs. Smith loved her chickens and always seemed to have one in her arms or sitting on her head.. Thanks for the thread..

[2 tbs]

FK-are you suggesting our little chickens are out to get you by chance??? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

The three you are referring to are actually running the farm on purpose! They are peeps, ok, so they are fairly large at this point but they are still young and the big 'uns will beat 'em up if we put them together. They will be in with the group soon though-they need to finish off their chick food first.

I have learned to rather enjoy that "chanting". I think it's a neat sound and truthfully, it can be soothing. Now the full blow crowing thing that they do...yeah, that can get to ya after a while but the little "brk, brk, brk, brk, brk" noise is kinda cute-even the "brKAWK" that usually ends the little series of "brk" noises. Yes, I said an icky chicken is cute. Now, I don't get all silly with the chickens like I do the umpteen baby bunnies we have but I do talk to them and interestingly enough I think they listen!! Or, maybe I just spend too much time alone at the farm and am losing my mind http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

I dunno, the horses seem to think chickens are birdzilla at first but mine got over it pretty quick and I actually think they are lulled to sleep at night by the light chirps from the chicken coop - or they've all plugged their ears with hay and just ignore them http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[fullmoon fever]

Whenever people tell me they're buying a farm and want to "raise their own food", I tell them to start with chickens. By the time they are old enough to be dinner, you will WANT to kill them. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

I used to raise meat birds, but had them in a large fenced area (8' high fencing) and by the time they would fly over, they were too "busty" to get airborne. The turkeys OTOH.... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

Anyway, enjoy the chicken chanting and just wait for the pigs!

One of my first boarding experiences was at a farm where (unbeknownst to me until school was out and I could arrive before 4 pm) my pony shared his stall with 6 pigs! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

I guess that explains why years later he chased a neighbour's escaped boar 5 miles down the road. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[BeastieSlave]

Originally posted by 5:
(mike isn't very brave he is well...you know)
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I'm not a fan of chickens at the barn. I boarded at a place once that had them and the thing I remember most about chickens was the mess! Yuck! Chicken poop everywhere.

My trainer has peacocks and I can say that you are right about loud birds being a good thing to be exposed to... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif The big guy just about had a heart attack and fell over on the spot the first time he heard one 'go off'.

[bewitchedarabians]

I love my 'finely feathered friends', lol. I have had some pretty "special" poultry-type-friends over my lifetime...
Chickens AND Goats are great to "desensitize" horses. I had one goat that would climb onto my young mare while she was laying down and just stand on her back. That goat and her momma were what "tamed" this mare---she was a "B^t(h" from the time she was a baby, refusing to be handled, so my goats wound up handling "imprinting" on her, climbing on her, jumping on her, walking underneath her and between her legs, etc, lol. Chickens helped too by "riding" her, though she usually bucked them off. This mare's dam however was much more tolerant of the chickens, as this picture shows:
Chicken Broke (http://bewitchedarabians.homestead.com/files/chickenbroke.jpg)
One of my pheasants escaped and she would always come up and eat with my stallion...think the fox finally got her. Some of my Bobwhites escaped as well, and there's a couple of them that still come up and eat with my gelding whose paddock is closest to the quail pen. And my dearly departed Turkey always hung around that same gelding when I'd turn him out into the backyard to 'mow' for me---Turkey would "cluck" to him trying to get him to come share a particularly tasty blade of grass he'd found--he also would pick grass out of the gelding's mouth...gosh I miss that Turkey! Aside from the quail I still have in their pen, I'm down to only two chickens now, both roosters (thanks A LOT danged foxes http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif), and they too go eat with the horses, picking up what they drop. And of course feeding the BOSS, I have all kinds of wild birds always hanging around the horses at feeding time, lol. One of my roosters, appropriately named "Cowboy" (he's a Game rooster X Buff Cochin hen, and his feathered little feet and legs look as though he's wearing "batwing chaps") rides my pygmy goat---rooster is just OBSESSED with that goat, lol, everywhere the goat goes, there's the rooster, otherwise the rooster chasing trying to catch up to him. I did catch him one day and put him on a couple of the horses, he stood there on them a little while, then hopped down...he prefers to ride the goat, lol. I have SO got to get a video of him riding the goat!

[Erin Pittman]

I used to board at a place that had chickens (I HATE chickens unless they're on my plate). One rooster was a real sweetie - except that he'd poop on my tack http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif . Good thing they make saddle covers. The other rooster, though, was a b@stard - he'd try to chase me...I'd give him flying lessons. Only problem was, he seemed to LIKE flying lessons and always came back for more. When we bought our own place, the first thing to come down was the chicken coop - I can't tell you how much mess I cleaned up - I still find feathers every once in awhile.

[2 tbs]

Our chickens live in a fenced off area. I have to say they are the most smell-less chickens I've ever met cuz their coop is kept clean and they are outside from just before dawn until they put themselves to bed around dark.

I would not suggest they be left loose. Raccoons will eat them along with other critters of the night and their poop being spread at liberty...ugh! The geese poo at the other farm is unreal. If I had to deal with chicken poo too...wow!!! that would be awful!! I also don't suggest roosters either. Unless you plan on raising little chickens you don't need 'em. They beat the crap out of the hens and tend to keep peace from exisiting!

Lucky for us we have a goat too! He shares the fenced area with the chickens. The poor chickens have to fight off the big ol nasty (but cute and squishy at the same time http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif ) goat!

[pegasus209]

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I'm laughing so hard!! This thread is hysterical~please keep the chicken stories coming!!!
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[OnCue]

I hear you knockin', Phaxxton. Not only am I terrified of them in all their jerky peckingness, but just their bodies completely freak me out. Have you ever held one? First, you've got this big puff of feathers. Then, waaayyy down deep you get to the chicken proper. So what the h@ll is going on in all that space in between??!! *shudder*

Yeah, I've over thought this just a bit. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[jilltx]

Well the friggin chiggins are up to no good and I think my filly is in on the whole thing!

I arrived at the barn early this morning to meet the farrier. I had left myself plenty of time to haul her out, clean her stall, pick the feet, etc.,... As I come walking around the corner of the barn to greet the beast, what do I spy but the karmic chanting-chicken hoards...milling about her feet. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Now mind you, this filly is well-known at other barns for her ability to relocate lesser animals than herself to a more respectable and appropriate distance. So there I stand, jaw on floor, watching in horror as my filly willing cavorts with the enemy (HEN-emies??)!

I stand there, certain that said foul will shortly become "pressed chicken", but to my utter amazement, she allows them to cruise through her legs and carry on in fine feathered fashion. The HORROR!! *SHE* can tolerate them, but *I* can't keep it together??

At the very instant that I take one step forward to greet my filly with the obligatory "snuzzle the muzzle" the karmic chanting-chicken hoards cry, "FOUL" (FOWL!!) and begin running in every which direction. El Pollo Diablo steps out of the stall, shoots me a look of complete and utter confidence and begins his karmic chicken-chanting rally call.

I head to the tack room to get the trusty broom and head in the direction of the feathered masses, confident in my newly found "chicken for barn dummies" knowledge. Guess what?

Brooms really tick them off! El Pollo Diablo can move pretty fast on his feet, but not fast enough. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif Last I saw he and two of his cronies were heading off to the front of the barn to torment some unsuspecting soul. I'm certain he's planning some devious tactical offensive manuvers for tomorrow morning.

Mistyblue...shhhhhh!! That information should be classified. What if other chickens tip El Pollo Diablo off and tell him where to find tips in "ninja chickens" and "sniper chickens"?? Think of the consequences!!! There would be CMD's (Chickens of Mass Destruction) at every barn!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[TBsRgr8]

This is the age we started handling (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hooliganandco/detail?.dir=816f&.dnm=7594.jpg&.src=ph) Mom's beloved Dominiques. They are pretty cross at her right now because life has been hectic the last few weeks and our beginning egg-layers are missing their attention. They are definitely easier to catch and put back into their enclosure since they have been handled from the day they were brought home. We have a thing that we can move around the yard so no one spot gets too gross from the chicken mess. I am glad that the girls can't get in with the horse.

I don't like when they are allowed to roam free... We captured a stray chicken (from the neighbor's place) that way. She was making a mess of our chicken coop where we store the chicken feed and the horse's hay. I opened the door into the chicken side and let her in with our older Dominique hen. We've had a reliable egg layer since. The Dominique girl had stopped laying due to advanced age.

***Note to self: DO NOT send Mom to Southern States to pick up Furacin for the horse in the early spring unless you want her to come home with a few "extra" items (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hooliganandco/detail?.dir=816f&.dnm=8405.jpg&.src=ph).

[darkmoonlady]

You and mr "le Pollo Diablo" need to come to an agreement and have a chat. Wait till sunset when hes about to roost, they can't handle darkness (why we rule the world and they don't) and just snatch him carefully off his perch. Sounds scary but trust me I raised a lot of chickens, insane roosters in the mix, its easier than it sounds. Take him under your arm so he can't move with your hand around his legs, then flip him on his back, stroke his belly till he goes limp. This is chicken hypnotizing. Sounds nuts but try this one at home folks, its freakin' hilarious. If you get 'em relaxed enough you can lay them on the ground on their backs and they won't move till you tap their foot. I did this with three banty roosters as a kid(can you tell I was seriously bored as a child?) and would flip each one over ala star trek communicator style, (fast flip is better) and then layed them all next to each other. My grandmother would just crack up. It does teach the mean rooster who is boss tho.

[RHdobes]

Chicken-flippin'!

What next?! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[bewitchedarabians]

LOL at the Chicken Hypnotizing/Flippin.

My Mom got so P'd off at one of my roosters of a few years gone by now, he kept fighting with the other rooster and harressing the hens as well my ducks, that one afternoon, she took the broom to him---BUT---it was the BROOM HANDLE that she took to him and whacked him upside the head. Well, she killed him and I cussed her out for doing so...She picked him up and laid him next to the step planning to "dispose of him" shortly...Well, it turned out that she DIDN'T kill him, just rendered him unconscious for a little while, lol...He walked around somewhat crooked and with a head tilt after that, but he didn't bother anyone after that and was a model citizen, lol!
One of my current roosters, "Cowboy" (the one that rides the goat), has been walking a fine line where my Mom is concerned...my poor little 8 lb Rat Terrier can't hardly go outside anymore as he always makes a bee-line for her and tries to jump her, lol...sometimes dog goes for him, other times she runs with her little nubbin' tail betwixt her legs for me and the door. I've actually been SURPRIZED that Cowboy hasn't attempted to "attack" us, and while *I* trust him and know he won't mess with me, my Mom is far from convinced that she can trust him...He's cool with me, and actually clucks to me and picks up grass or *ANYTHING* he finds when I walk near him as if I'm his hen and he wants to share his treat that he has scratched up with me, lol...
I had mentioned my turkey in my earlier post---forgot to add that when I brought home 20 young poults and put them out him, he turned into TurkeyZilla and NOBODY could walk across the backyard, as he would attack you trying to protect "HIS BABIES". I had to carry either my whip or whatever implement I had handy to serve as a "Turkey Stick" to get to the pasture gate, lol. Once the "babies" were grown (and shortly thereafter living in my freezer), he went back to being my sweet 'Albie-Turkey', lol. Nobody DARED to venture anywhere near the backyard though when those babies were little for fear of the big bad psycho-Tom, lol!

[Phaxxton]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by OnCue:
I hear you knockin', Phaxxton. Not only am I terrified of them in all their jerky peckingness, but just their bodies completely freak me out. Have you ever held one? First, you've got this big puff of feathers. Then, waaayyy down deep you get to the chicken proper. So what the h@ll is going on in all that space in between??!! *shudder*

Yeah, I've over thought this just a bit. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh, it's good to know I'm not alone. Everyone else just laughs at me and thinks it's ridiculous that I'm afraid of chickens!

[race_run_jump]

I'm dying laughing. I'm totally afraid of birds - it's like I WANT to like them, but the whole wing-flapping thing freaks me out. Excellent spook proofer for the filly, though.
I got a cockatiel for my child - thinking that I could "learn" to not be freaked by them - and he hid under the dining room table screaming, "NO NO BABY BIRD!!!" until I gave the poor thing to my niece. It must be a genetic failing........

[EqTrainer]

When we moved here, we have 5 chickens that "came with the farm". Bisous slowly and methodically eliminated them http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif it did take long enough to make the horses bombproof about them.

Have you ever seen the movie "Chicken Run"? A few lines from it:

Him:
"The chickens are revolting!"

Her:
"Finally, something we can agree on..."

[Susan P]

Perhaps a little parakeet might have been a better choice, much smaller, and the males will talk and play.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by race_run_jump:
I'm dying laughing. I'm totally afraid of birds - it's like I WANT to like them, but the whole wing-flapping thing freaks me out. Excellent spook proofer for the filly, though.
I got a cockatiel for my child - thinking that I could "learn" to not be freaked by them - and he hid under the dining room table screaming, "NO NO BABY BIRD!!!" until I gave the poor thing to my niece. It must be a genetic failing........ </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[bewitchedarabians]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Phaxxton:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by OnCue:
I hear you knockin', Phaxxton. Not only am I terrified of them in all their jerky peckingness, but just their bodies completely freak me out. Have you ever held one? First, you've got this big puff of feathers. Then, waaayyy down deep you get to the chicken proper. So what the h@ll is going on in all that space in between??!! *shudder*

Yeah, I've over thought this just a bit. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh, it's good to know I'm not alone. Everyone else just laughs at me and thinks it's ridiculous that I'm afraid of chickens! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by race_run_jump:
I'm dying laughing. I'm totally afraid of birds - it's like I WANT to like them, but the whole wing-flapping thing freaks me out. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Being scared of LIVE chickens, y'all would SURELY die of a heart attack had you been involved in killing and 'dressing' chickens! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I swear those dead, headless chickens have a built in radar that locks them in on you---trust me, it is no fun being chased, splashed with blood, and attacked by a dead, headless, manic flapping chicken body http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif...It is a wonder that experiencing THAT as a child that I WASN'T "SCARRED FOR LIFE"! I will take the LIVE chicken ANY DAY, lol!

[davidgud - equestrian jihad]

Re: Chicken terror in the stableyard . . .

Call KFC and have them send written death threats to the Rooster Jihad . . .

[Nikita]

OMG I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. I think hubby is convinced I've truly lost it especially since it's only been a day since I couldn't gain control for about two hours after the *mini pad on the outside of the in heat dog's underwear incident*. But that is totally not chicken related so I won't go there.

When we moved here the barn had lots of chicken house room thingies and he decided he wanted some chickens. He had this wonderful Green Acres image in his mind of a few laying eggs in the barn and of other chickens pecking away on the front lawn and and his woman wringing their little necks and plucking them for dinner. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif

A. If I'm wringing anythings neck, it ain't gonna be the chickens http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif and
B. I don't pluck. And I can safely say I will never pluck. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif

and then there is "C".
C. is the Reba dog. The Reba dog love birds. But not in a hey buddy hey pal kinda way. The last place I lived the neighbours kid started to raise exotic chickens. They let them run around the neighbourhood. The Reba dog discovered the chickens running around and would go on chicken grabbing frenzies. She'd bring the chickens to the barn, dump the thing in the barn and go get another. The indignant chicken(s) would run around the barn squawking. The horses would start shrieking in terror. And the Reba dog would still bring more. I heard the kafuffle and went in there and there are horses in need of extensive therapy, goober covered chickens and one very happy Reba dog licking her chops and getting ready for the feast. I won't even go into me sneaking over to the neighbours in the middle of the night with chickens wrapped in towels so I could toss them back and getting caught and lying about how I found them on the road and saved them. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

The only chickens I like are the ones from Chicken Run.

The only chickens my horses like are chickens that live somewhere else!

[tbtula]

Didn't read the whole post, but at my old barn we had chickens AND ginea (sp) hens....I hate those things! I had a 17h OTTB, who was the lowest on the totem pole, and I really mean the lowest. All twelve hens would herd around him in the field and move him to a different spot, it was the funniest thing I have ever seen..my non-horse father saw it and was laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes. Also when lunging the same horse the hens would sit on the fence and whenever said horse would go by the hens they made a ruckus and he would tear a$$ to get out of that corner http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Equinetech]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by RAyers:
I think you need to show up with a knowing look and a bucket of KFC. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Reed </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Egg-zactly. Ala Rene Zelweiger in "cold mountain" Remember what she did to that rooster that tortured Nicole Kidman's character?

[topsecretmoon]

OMG!!! I thought I was the only one that gave roosters "flying lessons!" http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gifGot tired of one of those fighting roosters sneaking (yes sneaking!) up behind me and nailing my legs with his spurs! Some people had gotten busted in Miami for cock fighting and dropped a load off near our ranch. Well, they wandered in (I agree I like chicken on my plate although a few hens around keep down the bug problems in your barn areas) That evil thing would sneak up nail me when my back was turned and when I would turn to find out what hit me would go at it again. Now I love all animals (yes even chickens... for the most part LOL) but I would send him flying at the end on my boot as I normally of course had NOTHING to defend myself with. Do you think that stopped him??? OH NO... Until he met Jack. My 1,000 lb quarter horse gelding and tried to spur him as he was eating hay. Sigh... that was the end of Mr. Evil &lt;VBG&gt;[QUOTE]Originally posted by Erin Petersen:
The other rooster, though, was a b@stard - he'd try to chase me...I'd give him flying lessons. Only problem was, he seemed to LIKE flying lessons and always came back for more. When we bought our own place, the first thing to come down was the chicken coop - I can't tell you how much mess I cleaned up - I still find feathers every once in awhile

[topsecretmoon]

Must be related to cow tipping????
http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by RHdobes:
Chicken-flippin'!

What next?! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[A. P.]

Yes, they are chanting. Quieeeetly, trying to look non0-chalant, sidle as close to them as you can, and listed verrrryyyy carefully, and you'll hear they are chanting:

"One of us, one of us...."

Rent the movie "Freaks" for details.

[2DogsFarm]

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif
Ah, you people are Soooo sick!
But in a Good Way...
Not all Chicken Stories come from the country.
When I lived in the Big City some friends thought it would be funny to dump a live hen in my backyard. Not only did DH teach me the hypnosis thing - Amaze Your Friends! - but when the darn thing got used to the drill and wouldn't stay hypnotized, I took it to the local Live Poultry butcher and served chicken salad to the friends. They were apalled http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

[mst]

i see the broom came up again. Anyone remember reading animal farm? maybe thats is whats going on.

[BelladonnaLily]

Chickens of Mass Destruction! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

Hey, wait...we had those! Are you sure you're not in Va? Last barn we leased was full of those little evil feathered things. Pooped in the water buckets, on the stall ledges, EVERYWHERE! Made a horrible mess. And boy, during foal watch at night they really gave you the heebie jeebies with their low moaning squawks.

Now we have the horses at home...with a multitude of other critters. EXCEPT chickens. Thats where I draw the line. There and pigs/hogs. My daughter wants one. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

May the force be with you, jilltx. I feel your pain! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[Susan P]

Hey now, I love my chickens. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

[perfectionist]

I had a couple of turkey gobblers when I was younger. My brother had his cool yellow motorcycle; the turkeys fell in love with the bike. They would dance and strut all around it! He would try to be so cool when he would go off on the bike, BUT the turkeys were chasing him down the driveway and often down the road. He did not think that was so cool!

Later on in life, I had a "lone" gobler named Tooley. Tooley never had a "real" mate, but any critter lying around was subject to Tooley "making it his mate" if you know what I mean. It was hilarious! Tooley died of old age, a virgin.

[Elmstead]

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

This thread is hilarious!!!!

[J Swan]

At my old boarding barn there was (and still is) an African Goose named Mr. Peabody.

He was really a nice goose - and if you picked him up and hugged and kissed him he was very sweet.

But when you put him down - watch out. He was silent and deadly. I remember squatting down to take pictures of the barn pigs and then thinking - where is Mr. Peabody? So I turn around to see nothing but beak and beady eyes right in my camera lens.

You couldn't pick your horses feet without someone to watch your back.

And we had hens that would lay up in the hayloft - problem was that the hayloft had holes in the floor so eventually we'd be walking around in the barn and it would start raining peeps. We'd take them back up to the hayloft and put them back but they'd fall through the holes - you should have seen the horses at feeding time. They'd be eating and all of a sudden a peep would fall into their feed bucket.

[Painthorsejumper]

The place where I board used to have chickens that "migrated" there after their owner moved away, but not anymore.

My trainer shot them all. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[RioTex]

Jilltx or anyone else having chiken problems, please call me and I will drop off Brownie. As we were finishing up feeding this morning the two horses in the last paddock went nuts and I look over to see Brownie proudly carrying home a semi-live rooster.

Of course, the neighbor (who used to have a rooster) is watching her too. Brownie and the rooster apparently met in the big field next door (where neither of them have a right to be) and thus ensued a rousing scuffle.

Now I guess I will pay the neighbor for the rooster (what's the going rate for a rooster and how does one properly apologize with a large language barrier?) and hope he does not shoot my dogs.

[jilltx]

Riotex http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif We need the "I'm so embarassed for you" emoticon? I'll gladly ship you El Pollo Diablo, assuming I can get close enough to him to hypnotize him and fling him into a crate.

Seems my BO's dogs are taking a toll. I found a feather in the back of my stall last week while I was picking it out. It was still attached to a dead chicken that had been buried there that morning. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif This, incidentially, is dead-chicken-in-my-stall number 3.

Perhaps now I know why they start chanting everytime I come into the barn. They think I'm the chickenator!

[alabama]

I had chickens for a summer. One came with the house and was supposedly an egg producer. Cool, right? Well, she gave me exactly one egg all summer. I got three more to chicken sit for friends. They were youngsters so I didn't expect eggs.

Well, expect for the fact that the drank A LOT and ate A LOT they weren't much trouble. Would have been ok if I was getting EGGS out to it. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif But when the friend who I was chicken sitting for decided she really didn't want them back, I called the feed store and asked if anyone there wanted some chickens. Chickens were gone the next day. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Might want to try that option.

[sid]

Definitely one of the funniest threads I've ever read. Nominated for the COTH archives, for sure... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[pharmgirl]

ROFLMAO!!! This thread is great! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

I think the only thing better would be seeing something like "The $700 Pony vs. el Pollo Diablo and his chanting chicken army"

I must say, even taking animal science and being a vet tech that I am a mammal person. I definitely could not deal with those things at my barn (they scare me too http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif ). I do have a good chicken story, though. While working for a vet, a woman who lives on a farm brought us her chicken who had been mauled. We tried to clean her up and save her, so we were giving her a betadine shampoo bath in a utility tub. She was the nicest chicken I've ever seen- not one bad move or peck. It was really funny to see this chicken just hanging out and floating in this tub. She even would hold up her wings as we dried her, like she was enjoying a day at the spa. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[J Swan]

pharmgirl - I knew a woman who showed Polish Chickens. Polish or Pollish? I don't know. These things had this big poll of feathers on their head. She had dozens of them that she showed.

And yes, they all got baths and blow dried. They loved their baths and they would preen and hold out their wings while she blowed dried them. She had a whole assembly line.

It looked like a high end salon for chickens with this enormous pouft on their heads.

Of course - the ones who didn't win got served for dinner. But they were very clean chickens.

[5]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">
I must say, even taking animal science and being a vet tech that I am a mammal person. I definitely could not deal with those things at my barn (they scare me too http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif ). I do have a good chicken story, though. While working for a vet, a woman who lives on a farm brought us her chicken who had been mauled. We tried to clean her up and save her, so we were giving her a betadine shampoo bath in a utility tub. She was the nicest chicken I've ever seen- not one bad move or peck. It was really funny to see this chicken just hanging out and floating in this tub. She even would hold up her wings as we dried her, like she was enjoying a day at the spa. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Tell me the hen made it. A bird like that deserves a happy ending

[pharmgirl]

Unfortunately, no she didn't make it. She had some serious puncture wounds and I think infection got the best of her. It was sad, because she really was such a sweet girl. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif I believe Creamsicle was her name.
(I was hoping no one would ask since it didn't have a happy ending http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif )

[perfectionist]

Being somewhat of a redneck I have had chickens all my life. At one time, I had a window air conditioner in my bedroom near my bed. Several of my chickens roosted there at night. However, one night an owl found them; it was sad to hear the chicken squawk as the owl was carrying him through the air....

They also used to sleep on my porch swing. Had one pet rooster that used to ride in the front basket of my bicycle. Tried getting him to stay on my pony when I rode, but not much luck.

One night we had a storm with a lot of wind; the next morning as I was going to work I met a line of chickens marching up the road to my house; all I could figure is that the wind must have carried them down the road. That was a laugh....

I keep thinking of how the person that started this post spoke of the "chickens with their freaky little boyfriends." Best one I have heard in a while.

[fullmoon fever]

For all that I do not like chickens (alive), I did at one time have a few laying hens. They were all named after female characters on a soap opera that I watched at the time. One, in particular, was a real sweetheart (for a hen). She used to perch on my arm like a falcon; she may have been raised by a relative of the chanting chickens. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

The weirdest chicken thing that happened to me: my neighbour gave me her chickens and a duck. I had my ex build a "pond" for the duck (ie. sunk 1/2 a plastic barrel in the ground and filled it with water). The neighbour kids delivered the hens one by one.

I came home from work and found 6 wet, pi@@ed hens in the "pond"....after having had a chicken EXPLODE at me out of my mailbox and into my car as I picked up the mail. The neighbour kids thought that was hysterical. Anyway, the kids had dropped off chicken #1 and then returned with chicken #2. Chicken #1 was in the pond. Kids proceeded to put ALL the chickens in the pond because they thought I had done that to keep them from escaping. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

[PeriwinkleBlue]

Y'all's chicken stories are killing me! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

I grew up with chickens - I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand, they are smelly, messy, nasty birds, with incredibly tiny brains. On the other...have you ever seen a mother hen with her chicks? If you really watch, it is the sweetest sight. The mama will uncover a good cache of bugs, and instead of chowing down, she immediately calls her brood to the buffet, and then stands guard while they devour the goodies. She will attack dogs or humans or really anything that threatens her precious babies.

And what's even cooler is that sometimes you can get a lonely hen to adopt some babies, and she'll treat them exactly as if she hatched them herself.

I do have some fond and not-so-fond memories of chickens. My sister had an adorable speckled hen named Raincoat that would follow her around like a dog. Another of my sisters had a white hen who would come sit on her lap all the time. I rescued a rooster who was sick and nursed him back to health (I was 6 years old). He became my devoted companion and went with me everywhere until my brother's dog got a craving for KFC. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

At the first boarding barn I went to, there was a huge rooster that was absolutely evil and had it in for me. I kid you not, he would hide around the corner and leap out to attack me. I took to carrying heavy buckets with me and any time I saw him I'd hurl one at him. He finally took the hint and left me alone. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Oh, and I LOVE the chanting! I find it soothing. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[38acres]

This brings back sooo many memories of my childhood. I boarded at a barn down the road and the owner was one of those "old farm guys" who played around with all kinds of different animals. Well, in comes the chickens. After 1 week, only 1 rooster was left (guess the fox got the rest) and this thing was mean. My sister and I named him Lucifer. He would stand on the front walk of the house and wait for people to walk down the road and attack them. We would walk around the barn with a broom in hand. Then one day we left the broom outside because we thought Lucifer wasn't around, and lo and behold when we went to leave there he was guarding the broom! We had no way of getting out of the barn other than climbing out my horses stall window and walking home ( we rode our bikes to the barn) My father had to drive us back and guard us untill we could get to our bikes and get out of there. I guess my parents talked to BO about Lucifer because we heard rumours later that week that he was dinner for BO!

[bwf]

Oh. I have lived through a chicken rebellion. It was really bad. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif The nasty barn I leased for 6 years had chicken. 2 roosters. One I named Little Dean after the pervert farmer who lived across the street. The other Hercules, who was a huge rooster. Hercules would wait on a split rail fence and wait for me to come down the driveway with my lawn tractor and little red manure spreader. He would jump off of the fence and try to attack me. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif I learned to go really fast with the tractor and duck as I went by. Hercules would also wait for the blacksmith who rented the apartment above the barn. She one day got out with a bunch of shoping bags and......Hercules ambushed her. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I stood at the barn and laughed my ass of watching her hit him with the bags. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif Then one early morning the farm owner forgot to shut the chicken coop door......and the 5 Jack Russels raided the chicken coop. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif I am sorrly to say that Hercules and many hens did not make it. Litttle Dean however got up in a tree for days, he is is still alive today. He has to be at least 8 years old. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif I did not like the dogs that much until the chicken slaughter. If you really want to get freeked out. you should watch what chickens do with a snake. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I also loved to give them a huge bowl of Angel Hair Pasta. They go nuts.. and love to eat it. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif Also if you would love to swap Craptastic Barn stories the barn I leased for 6 years tops all!!!!! It was a wonderful place with wonderful barn owners. It included snakes that fell off of the doors when you opened them, pluming made out of garden hoses, barn owners who showered naked on their back porch, every kind of wild animal in the barn, barn owners huuby going to jail for drug dealing, oh and I could go on and on!!!!!!

[Susan P]

I have vague childhood memories of my grandfather's farm in slower DE-Clayton. There was a rooster that would attack us if we got close to the milking barn but he wasn't always there and we gave him a wide birth, he wasn't the biggest problem on the farm. We were more concerned about the bull that gored my grandfather and years later one beat up my uncle pretty bad. The second time my grandfather was gored an inch from his heart and he was 80 years old. With his strong Polish accent he would say he was, "Strong like a bull" because the bull couldn't kill him but it sure gave it a good try.

Roosters wer not our biggest concern and they would just ring their scrawny little necks for chicken noodle soup if they were too much trouble. Many a chicken bit the dust at the hands of my grandmother. "Off with their heads!"

[cllane1]

Aaah, chicken memories. At one point in my childhood, we ended up as proprietors of almost 50 chickens. It all started when my sister and I were given cute little chicks for Easter. She named hers Samantha; mine was Tuffy. Well, turns out the feed store had a deal going: buy a sack of chicken feed, get some free chicks. So by the very act of trying to feed Tuffy and Samantha, we acquired more chickens. Then we needed to feed them...you see where this is going.

So we had all these chicks running around. My cousin and I caught one and decided it was dirty and we needed to wash it. So we put it in the sink and wash it, but I guess it passed out or something, b/c we thought it had died. Sneakily not telling my parents, we smuggled the "dead" chick out to the trash barrel (we live out in the country...no trash pickup at that time, so we had a trash barrel). We left the chick on top and mourned briefly, then went off to play. A few hours later, we happened to make a pass by the can and lo and behold, the chick was dried out and fluffy and sitting up and peeping! It was a miracle! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif So we snuck him back into the pen with the rest of them and never tried to wash one again.

About that time Samantha started laying eggs. She was a Rhode Island Red, so she laid great brown eggs. We got about 1 a day from her. Then she started laying two a day! We thought, we have a hen prodigy! Then it went up to three! We were so amazed we started telling everyone in our community that we had a super hen, etc. It got to be a daily adventure, going out to check Samantha's nest to see how many eggs there were. It finally came to a head on Easter morning when we awoke to find...a nest full of dyed, hardboiled eggs! My uncle who lives up the road had been sneaking in at night and padding the nest, and by the time Easter came around, everyone in the area knew it but us. So when we got to church that day, everyone rushed up to ask us how many eggs our super hen had laid. My dad sure had a red face that day, and people in the area still talk about it!

Shortly thereafter, we let our hired men haul off all the chickens. But it was fun while it lasted!

[jilltx]

Here he is: The main Mother Clucker.

It would seem that El Pollo Diablo had a bit of a tiff with the BO's dog yesterday. He was seeking asylum in my stall when I brought the filly in last night. Much to his dismay, the filly was not accepting visitors for dinner and promptly showed him the door courtesy of her two hind feet. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif She missed, thank GAWD!

I actually feel a little sorry for the dude. He was dragging tail-feather around tonight making his "Alien resurrection" sound. I even left the tack trunk askew a bit so there's just enough room for chicken little to squeeze through and be safe from the BO's dogs.

King of the spastic chanting chicken hoards!! (http://doobage.redirectme.net/horses/el_pollo_diablo.jpg)

I need to get a snap of another rooster who sits on top of the BO's hay rack. He spreads his wings ever so slightly and he looks like the spitting image of a Gargoyle!

[Linny]

Mother Clucker... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif

[Red]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jonquilTN:
Methinks they need a reminder- tell them to go to http://www.subservientchicken.com

-Amy </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

OMG!! That is the FREAKIEST thing I have EVER seen..

I had to pick my rooster and hen up from around the barn today. A wing here, a foot there. I started with 8 and now I have 0.
Apparently, my barn is the local chicken schmorgasbord for the coyotes.
So, if anyone wants to get rid of some chickens, bring 'em over!!!!

Disposachicken!!!!!

[perfectionist]

You COTH guys have the greatest sense of humor and are so light-hearted! I participate in several horse forums, and I must say that the members on this site are the coolest! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

Some of the members on the other horse forums are so "uppity" and "little rich b...." types, but not here! Many are so childish also. I really enjoy this forum and learn so much here, but I must confess I have saddlebreds, can I stay? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[Whiskey Lullaby]

Omygosh - with that chicken link: tell it to fly... HAHA!

Okay I am OFICIALLY laughing, crying.

[Whiskey Lullaby]

Wow. It even stands on its head?!

[Red]

OMG, click where it says Photos. Its almost obscene. I cant stop laughing!!!!!!!!

[Whiskey Lullaby]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

[Robby Johnson]

I am sure I have told my chicken story here, right?

I am deathly afraid of chickens and jilltx, that pic shows a yard buzzard that has NO good intentions. Shifty and up to no good.

I say chase him down with the weed-whacker.

Robby

[J Swan]

perfectionist - saddlebreds are horses too - kind of - so you can stay as long as you have a chicken story.

Goat stories are good too.

[J Swan]

Oh my God - go to the chicken site and tell it to poop, lay an egg, sleep or do a push up.

No - I didn't think of that - my husband did.


I knew a couple with an old dog - the dog like to sleep on a slab of stone in the front yard. One day they looked out to see buzzards on the ground near the dog - who was NOT dead - only taking a nap.

[GottaRide]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I actually feel a little sorry for the dude. He was dragging tail-feather around tonight making his "Alien resurrection" sound. I even left the tack trunk askew a bit so there's just enough room for chicken little to squeeze through and be safe from the BO's dogs. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

jilltx, methinks thou art becoming "hen-chanted" by El Pollo Diablo. He's sucking you in sweetie. Setting himself up for the coup de grace.

That visual of the chickens meandering around your horse's legs: Equine Con Pollo!

[BeastieSlave]

jonquilTN the subservient chicken just did jumping jacks for me! That is so twisted!!!!

[Reynard Ridge]

jilltx, I have to say that El Pollo Diablo is a righteous dude.

And while I personally have about 500 chickens right now (about half are broilers so their little life clocks are ticking, so to speak) not a single one of them has, um, well, wedding tackle.

And I sure do like it that way.

If you would REALLY like to finish El Pollo Diablo off in a truly fitting way for so polished and poised a strutting rooster, send him my way. One rooster + 500 hens, El Pollo Diablo would, well, um, 'fruitbat' himself to death. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[ChocoMare]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">quote:
Originally posted by jonquilTN:
Methinks they need a reminder- tell them to go to http://www.subservientchicken.com

-Amy </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's a riot! Wonder if that guy just sits around in his chicken suit 24/7 waiting for commands? If so, wonder what the pay is for that job? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[BeastieSlave]

Chocomare, I've been thinking about that poor 'chicken' since he did jumping jacks for me... Surely there are several chicken dudes (dudettes?) who take shifts. I can't imagine being at the beck and call of people (like us) 24/7 http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

It is hillarious though. You guys who haven't gone to the site yet have got to check it out!!!

[Whiskey Lullaby]

Okay, nobody is going to believe this because it is so weird (esp the timing of it) This am at 4 (insomniac here lol) there was a segment on the news about a town (forgot where it was) that was invaded with "evil" chickens and roosters. The newscasters were joking about how they were both afraid of them and stories, it was priceless!

[eponacelt]

Hey. Be glad you just have chickens. We have evil invading chickens AND man-eating emus at my barn. The BO swears the emus are the sweetest things alive. And she does hand feed them on occassion, but they scare the heck out of me. You think chanting-chicks is bad...have you ever heard the emu's war drums? I swear, the male is just waiting for the right moment to jump on me and peck my eyes out. He even chased me while I was riding my horse one day!

I'll take the chickens any day!

[BeastieSlave]

Give me a good 'ol duck any day!

Chickens are messy and kind of creepy, geese can be mean, peacocks are loud and messy.... I don't even want to think about emus and other large flightless birds http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Windsor]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by GottaRide:
He's sucking you in sweetie. Setting himself up for the coup de grace. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Of course you meant "coop" de grace. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[WildBlue]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BeastieSlave:
Give me a good 'ol duck any day!
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Guess you've never heard the expression "Nibbled to death by ducks", huh? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

[BeastieSlave]

Ah yes, I've been nibbled (obviously not to death) by ducks. I can't really be scared of ducks though. They don't get too big or have sharp beaks. Besides, having a duck waddling along after you just doesn't inspire fear. Even when they're mad, they still waddle. I can't help but be amused http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[CrouchingCheese]

I don't have much experience with chickens....but I did know a couple of ostriches. This is my story:

It was the middle of june, obviously prime breeding season for any mature ostrich. My dear boyfriend Adam and I decided to practice our archery in the small field next to the ostrich pen. I was wearing jeans....and a bright red shirt. We were laughing, walking around the corner, and suddenly I stopped dead, for there was Ozzy the Ostrich, staring right at me, his wings spread apart and his head held high. I could only stare in dread as he came rushing toward me, flapping his huge, beastly wings, calling out for me, those huge feet thundering on the ground. Luckily for me the fence stopped him. He slammed into it with the force of a thousand ostriches, still calling my name and trying to dance. I looked over at my Adam, standing there, his jaw open, staring at the huge bird who was trying to impress his girlfriend. It was then that we went back inside, and I changed into a dark blue shirt.

They have since sold the ostriches, but I will never wear a red shirt around one ever again....

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Red]

Ostriches are scary, scary creatures...... One of our clients has two. One day we got a call to go float her horses teeth. In order to get to the hose, I had to walk past the ostrich pen. Mr. Ostrich considered this quite a threat to his magnificence and came running full blast at the fence, wings spread and hissing like a reptilian beast.
He was like 20 feet tall and I swear he tried to hypnotize me with his beady little eyes.
Nothing humbles a human more than having a 20 foot tall ,pissed off, hissing, viciously beaked, throw back to prehistoric days BEAST loom over you.
Not to mention that he would rush the fence when any horse went by.
Needless to say... it made for a very interesting time.

[SimplySarah]

We never had chickens, but my best friend did, and we were always hypnotizing and putting them in trances.
In addition to the flipping, if you put their wings over their head and hold it there for a few seconds, they will go into a trance. If you hold them to the ground and draw a line out from their beak in the ground, they will go into a trance. They will just lay there and will not move at all. (When we'd get bored with playing horses, we would mess with the chickens.. mucho fun.)

A random, weird non-country chicken story: We're in Key West, Florida when I'm about 11. We are camping on the Navy base, and decide to go off base to Pizza Hut. As I got out of the van and was walking to the restaurant, I am suddenly attacked by chickens. It seemed that everywhere we went in Key West, I was being attacked by chickens. They interacted equally with the tourists and were wicked wicked wicked spoiled birds. So, if you hate chickens, beware of Key West.

[perfectionist]

Okay, have you guys heard about MIKE THE HEADLESS CHICKEN? Here is the site:
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/

This is a true "story" about the chicken. They even have a festival each year to honor Mike!

[Whiskey Lullaby]

Okay.... I just couldn't resist and couldn't get my mind off of the Burger King chicken: I told it that "Burger King pays below minimum wage" and it passed out! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[Galloway]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by perfectionist:
Okay, have you guys heard about MIKE THE HEADLESS CHICKEN? Here is the site:
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/

This is a true "story" about the chicken. They even have a festival each year to honor Mike! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It's a strange, strange world.

[BeastieSlave]

Okay, I confess.... Muscovy ducks do kind of creep me out.
You know, they're the ones that don't quack. They have a hoarse whispery noise they make. They also just look creepy and they seem to be more aggressive than your average duck.

Mike reminds me of a speech one of the football players gave in high school speech class. It was a demonstrative speech on "how to wring a chicken's neck" (yes, it was a rural h.s.). We all went out to the parking lot where the football hero gave his speech and proceeded to wring a chicken's neck. Of course the head popped off and the bird ran a round a bit...

[Duffy]

That Burger King chicken sight is freaky!

Alas, I don't have any chicken stories. We did have a mean-as-shit goose in my old neighborhood who used to terrorize my daughter. She'd want to feed the ducks. But, that mean goose kept coming at her, no matter that she was throwing bread FAR away for it. I would literally have to beat it off her! She'd have nightmares...

[icicle333]

i'm not a vegetarian, but chickens are the only meat i can eat, because they aren't cute.

ew they are so creepy and wierd!

but guinea hens creep me out 100 times more...the barn next door has them and since i use their rings i can't escape them. they are like this little group of old ladies pecking around and being ugly with their gross fleshy cheek-thingy-doopy-doos. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif then when they all decide they have something to say at the same time it sounds like you are in the middle of the rainforest...

i asked if they tasted good and the BM (who apparently likes them) gave me a stern 'NO!'

jeesh!

[ChocoMare]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by icicle333:
...They are like this little group of old ladies pecking around and being ugly with their gross fleshy cheek-thingy-doopy-doos. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

"cheek-thingy-doopy-doos" That's the technical name for it right? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

Reminds me: How come the human brain can think of "Thinga-Ma-Jig" "Doo-Hickey" "Whatchamacallit" etc. but it can't think of the real name of the item? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif I think I'll add that the list of questions I have for God when I get there. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[icicle333]

hey chocomare- those cheek-thingy-doopy-doos have a technical name?!?!?!

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[jilltx]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by icicle333:
hey chocomare- those cheek-thingy-doopy-doos have a technical name?!?!?!

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

They're called, "fleshy cheek wattles" ...gotta love Google. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[perfectionist]

The wattles on turkeys turn colors according to what "mood" the turkey is in. They range from red, pink, blue, white. It is cool to watch the colors change when he starts to strut and "drum." When a tom struts, the wattles seem to contract and get tighter. The thing on top of his nose area, forgot what you call that, also contracts somewhat when he struts. Sometimes it is just flopping around when he is eating or just being a turkey.....

[icicle333]

fleshy cheek wattle is pretty close to fleshy cheek-thingy-doopy-doos.

thanks for the info jilltx

[Amwrider]

The subservient chicken is not live (sorry to report) here is a link with his "play list"

http://dev.magicosm.net/cgi-bin/public/corvidaewiki/bin...ntChickenRequestList (http://dev.magicosm.net/cgi-bin/public/corvidaewiki/bin/view/Game/SubservientChickenRequestList)

[GottaRide]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Of course you meant "coop" de grace. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Umm...yes....of course http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

[Whisper]

I had chickens (mostly fancy show ones) and other poultry when I was in High School. Most of the roosters were very sweet. I only had one that was people-agressive. I gave him away to someone who was willing to have him because he did well at shows, and who kept him caged so that he wasn't a problem (we kept ours in groups in large pens). I did have one little banty rooster who would jump up and down, feathers bristling, pecking at (but always at least 4" away from) bigger roosters and our two cats. He never made contact, and they just ignored him, but it was pretty amusing to watch.

I had a few Muscovy ducks, including a drake (male) who beat the National Champion duck at one show. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif He was usually very easy to handle, but he accidentally scratched me once, and I still have the scar on my hand.

I also had a tom turkey who became a pet/show bird, instead of his original destiny to be sold for meat. He would heel, stay, come when called, "show off" on command (do the display thing with the feathers and changing color), let little kids try to pick him up or (one time)sit on him http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif or pull on his wattle. I put on little petting zoos at local school carnivals and such, to let little kids get some hands-on experience with animals. Even with good supervision, kids can be fast, and he was one of the critters who was very patient and good with the kids.

[2 tbs]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Whisper:
I had a few Muscovy ducks, including a drake (male) who beat the National Champion duck at one show. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif He was usually very easy to handle, but he accidentally scratched me once, and I still have the scar on my hand. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ok, we have recently acquired two of these critters at the farm where I keep Trevor. They are HUGE!!!! ducks!!! We are still getting used to them lurking around the arena and the barn/grazing areas but NOW they are in the TACKROOM!!! They are pooing everywhere! How do we make them stay by the pond???

They chase the geese, which is funny to watch and there are a million geese so it's ok (or at least that's what I tell myself!) when they catch one and rough it up a bit. Seems they have started to learn to live together but man are those suckers beastly! Anything I should know about them Whisper?? I mean, besides that they shouldn't be in my tackroom http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[BeastieSlave]

OMG!!! They have duck shows?! I thought rabbit shows were wild....

[Whisper]

Our Muscovies never attacked anyone (people or other critters), although the drake I mentioned committed "mis-cygnet-ation" with the goose. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif They usually just hopped up on top of the doghouse, and then bellyflopped 5' away. After they landed, they'd always wag their tails, stick their necks in and out, and hiss. One day, one of them decided to visit the Peking ducks owned by the people across the street. I saw her take off and fly clear over our house (and went across to retrieve her). I'm afraid the only way I can think of to keep them confined to an area is to keep them fenced in. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

BeastieSlave, not strictly duck shows, but poultry shows. Mostly chickens, but they have divisions for waterfowl (geese and ducks), turkeys, and sometimes exotics like pheasants. I think I mentioned on the ribbon thread in Eventing that I got money and a nice rosette for Best Conditioned bird in show once, and they give out silver trays and trophies, as well. I even got my picture in the paper with one of my chickens once, when he was Reserve Large Chicken. When the Muscovy had his big win, one of the other 4-Hers' dad complained that my "big ugly duck with a ragged tail shouldn't have beat his son's beautiful duck." http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif (He had moulted except for his main tail feathers.) The thing is, the one that is closest to the "standard of perfection" description wins, even if your idea of perfect doesn't include a lumpy red face. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif I have a picture of him, I'll try to get it scanned in soon.

Oh, and since you mentioned rabbits, one of my friends kept her chicks with a rabbit, to keep them warm, since she didn't have a hen to brood them.

[DJ]

We used to play rooster baseball with the mean one that we had. We just took a broom and met him in the air. Then he would do a back flip and come back for more.

It wasn't so funny when he flogged my baby and terrified her. He didn't stay long after the third time he did that.

Out of probably 30 chickens that I've had, he was the only diablo pollo.

If you want to hear a strange noise, just try taking eggs from a broody hen. Almost prehistoric

[DJ]

Just read Mike's website. I want to run in the "run like a headless chicken 5K" just for the t-shirt http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[BeastieSlave]

Whisper when I was a kid we kept an orphaned (okay so my lab stole it) baby bunny with an injured duckling. They lived together happily. It was so cute to see them sleeping together with the duck's beak tucked under the bunny's ears.... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

[ESG]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by perfectionist:
The wattles on turkeys turn colors according to what "mood" the turkey is in. They range from red, pink, blue, white. It is cool to watch the colors change when he starts to strut and "drum." When a tom struts, the wattles seem to contract and get tighter. The thing on top of his nose area, forgot what you call that, also contracts somewhat when he struts. Sometimes it is just flopping around when he is eating or just being a turkey..... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

<span class="ev_code_BLUE">Aaahhh - so THAT'S where the idea for the mood ring came from! Someone who raised turkeys! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif </span>

[perfectionist]

How are the "freaky little boyfriends" and the other chickens doing? I think of this thread often and get such a big chuckle out it!!!

[jilltx]

It is with heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of the freakish rooster; El Pollo Diablo, "leader of the spastic chicken chanting hoards".

Friday, October 15TH, 2005

El Pollo Diablo, infamous leader of the "spastic chicken-chanting hoards" has been found dead in an apparent double homicide. Also found on the premises was the body of one unidentified white rooster, killed in a similar fashion.

El pollo Diablo leaves behind several frightened hens and at least two roosters to carry on his legacy of torment, humiliation and general creepiness.

4 barn dogs are being held without bond by the BO for CSOAMS (chicken slaughter on a massive scale)for the murders of El Pollo Diablo and his unidentified rooster companion.

[In the Air]

Justifiable homicide http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Fessy's Mom]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by In the Air:
Justifiable homicide http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[Ride'emCO]

Are you in the South? If those dogs could talk, they'd say "he needed killin'" http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

[ChocoMare]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by In the Air:
Justifiable homicide http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yup. No jury in the country would convict 'em.

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[jilltx]

In The Air...

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Ride'EmVA...yes...
One dog was overheard saying, "I DESPISE a floggin' rooster", while another muttered , "tastes like chicken" as they were led away.

They were "Zellwegered" http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[Irish Ei's]

Any chance he's got Angel's wings???/

Good Dog......

Former Chicken-Soccer player here....ssshhhh..don't tell the BO

[abrant]

Hehehe....

We had a El Pollo Diablo who was murdered as well.

Well... his story is that the farm wanted a chicken to keep the horses company... the laborers go out, bring back a FIGHTING COCK!

Oh man... I have a scar on my side that a suffered haying one of his horse buddies one night.

So a couple days later I'm scrubbing buckets and I look up to see our resident Great Dane running around like a moron (not usual). Well, staring at me from his mouth with those nasty little eyes, is pollo. Oh yes, Mr. I'mgonnajumponyourfaceandmaimyou now looks pretty sweet as he cranes his neck up to keep his eye on me.

I stop, raise my hand for a moment, then drop it and go back to scrubbing buckets.

I guess later the assisant manager figured out what the dog had (despite the rest of us denying it) and saved him. But alas, it was too late.

I guess that makes me an accessory to chicken murder.

Murder most fowl.

I like the goats better anyway, even if they are afraid of horses. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

~Adrienne

[Ride'emCO]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Murder most fowl. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[tbtula]

Thanks for the laugh, I love it!

[Reynard Ridge]

RIP El Pollo Diablo.

You will be missed.

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

so...just to turn the thread in a somewhat different direction...chicken poop is the worst smelling poop of all...worse than dogs, humans, cats, pigs, whatever. Is that the general consensus?

Maybe they squawk because no matter how far they run, they can't get away from this truth.

[Nikita]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">jilltx
Grand Prix

<span class="ev_code_RED">Posted Oct. 14, 2005 01:09 PM</span>
It is with heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of the freakish rooster; El Pollo Diablo, "leader of the spastic chicken chanting hoards".

<span class="ev_code_RED">Friday, October 15TH, 2005</span>

El Pollo Diablo, infamous leader of the "spastic chicken-chanting hoards" has been found dead in an apparent double homicide. Also found on the premises was the body of one unidentified white rooster, killed in a similar fashion.

El pollo Diablo leaves behind several frightened hens and at least two roosters to carry on his legacy of torment, humiliation and general creepiness.

4 barn dogs are being held without bond by the BO for CSOAMS (chicken slaughter on a massive scale)for the murders of El Pollo Diablo and his unidentified rooster companion.


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~Jilltx~

Owned by Lunar Rendezvous "Luna" (tic)

Four out of five voices in my head are saying, "go ahead! Eat the chocolate!!" </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


VERY suspicious if you ask me.

Announcing a death ONE DAY prior to the actual death http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif just screams fowl play to the 350th degree. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

I think we have a murderer in our midst and I think she should fry. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif

[bewitchedarabians]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nikita:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">jilltx
Grand Prix

<span class="ev_code_RED">Posted Oct. 14, 2005 01:09 PM</span>
It is with heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of the freakish rooster; El Pollo Diablo, "leader of the spastic chicken chanting hoards".

<span class="ev_code_RED">Friday, October 15TH, 2005</span>

El Pollo Diablo, infamous leader of the "spastic chicken-chanting hoards" has been found dead in an apparent double homicide. Also found on the premises was the body of one unidentified white rooster, killed in a similar fashion.

El pollo Diablo leaves behind several frightened hens and at least two roosters to carry on his legacy of torment, humiliation and general creepiness.

4 barn dogs are being held without bond by the BO for CSOAMS (chicken slaughter on a massive scale)for the murders of El Pollo Diablo and his unidentified rooster companion.


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~Jilltx~

Owned by Lunar Rendezvous "Luna" (tic)

Four out of five voices in my head are saying, "go ahead! Eat the chocolate!!" </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


VERY suspicious if you ask me.

Announcing a death ONE DAY prior to the actual death http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif just screams fowl play to the 350th degree. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

I think we have a murderer in our midst and I think she should fry. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

OBJECTION!! I MUST protest and come to the defense of the incarcerated Canines! If it pleases the barnyard-court, I humbly request that we be provided with a copy of the report from the investigating PCSI(POULTRY Crime Scene Investigations)-Feathered Victims Unit of this HEINOUS (or is that HENious?) crime!
Witness members of the "Spastic Chicken Chanting Hoard (Cult?)" MUST be considered as HOSTILE WITNESSES. Barring any Equine Eye Witness accounts of this tragedy (and also taking into account that these same may indeed be HOSTILE Equine Witnesses as well who hold a grudge against the incarcerated Canines), it would seem further investigation is warranted as due to the presence of the unknown/unidentified deceased Feathered Victim (who could possibly be a rival intruder of El Pollo Diablo??), it is a highly likely possibility that this "Murder most Fowl" resulted from a mutually entered "Duel" by the feathered decedents, resulting in fatal wounds to both parties, and that the Canines were merely innocent bystanders and have been judged guilty without a fair trail by a jury of thier peers with unbiased representation!
I move that the Barnyard Court re-open this case! For Pete's sake, the incarcerated are being treated like DOGS!
I believe that further investigation is called for to prove/disprove this case citing the 'RESONABLE DOUBT' clause (paws?).
Also, given the 'relationship' and bad feelings for El Pollo Diablo of jilltx, jilltx MUST continue to be placed under suspicion in this case...

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Rest in Peace El Pollo Diablo...at least I thought you were "a good egg"...

[Nikita]

Hmmmm, I wonder.... how badly were the birds plucked up?

[Ashley Frost]

OMG ... my room-mate thinks I'm nuts now, that was HILARIOUS.

*Ash

[perfectionist]

Are you going to put on the tombstone "FREAKY LITTLE BOYFRIEND"? I remember that description from the opening post and crack up everytime I think of it!

[DJ]

Dressage Geek: I must disagree. While chicken duty is most foul, it is small in size. On the other hand Camel dooky is HUGE and very smelly. It rates a 9.75 on my sniffometer. Elephant poo, while not quite as pungent rates as high to me for similar voluminous reasons.

But I make the statement that chicken sh!t is the stickiest nastiest stuff to ever step in. In addition to the reek, there is that creepy nasty slimy aspect to it that seems to keep it from washing off, even with Lava soap.

[jilltx]

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ...and I thought El Pollo Diablo was bad! Back the cluck up people. I can't believe that you'd accuse ME of this HENous crime.

If it please the Barnyard Court I submit the following facts to dispell any doubt:

Exhibit a) The bodies of the beak-ceased were found several feet apart (and in seperate barns), so it could not have been a territorial dispute between rival birds (although the squak around the barnyard is that he had it coming).

Exhibit b)The bodies were found removed of feather and full of holes, but were otherwise untouched.

Exhibit c)The canines in question have been convicted and incarcerated on several earlier counts of fowl play. They are, in fact, still wearing their "anti-chicken killing" collars (that would be a bucket attached to their collars to slow then down. Don't ask. The BO really thinks this helps).

I personally believe that this particular "hit" was perpetrated against the KCCH (Karmic Chanting Chicken Hoards)in retaliation for crying, "the sky is falling!!" every time the alleged criminal canines were afoot (hence prodding the BO to install bucket-deterent devices on their collars).

In short...you guys are barking up the wrong tree! It weren't ME who did the deed!!!!!! Them dogs is GUILTY!!!!!

PS...Luna says she will NOT be coming forward as any sort of witness. Those pesky birds try to steal her feed everyday and she is NOT amused. She did say that *if* there were say...cookies...involved that she might be persuaded to come forward and testify. Until then, those birds are nothing more than feathered targets for her hind feet!! Cheap floosy!!

[Irish Ei's]

Don't you mean......."Cheep" Floozy?????

[SED]

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gifI loff this thread!

[bewitchedarabians]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jilltx:
http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif ...and I thought El Pollo Diablo was bad! Back the cluck up people. I can't believe that you'd accuse ME of this HENous crime.

If it please the Barnyard Court I submit the following facts to dispell any doubt:

Exhibit a) The bodies of the beak-ceased were found several feet apart (and in seperate barns), so it could not have been a territorial dispute between rival birds (although the squak around the barnyard is that he had it coming).

Exhibit b)The bodies were found removed of feather and full of holes, but were otherwise untouched.

Exhibit c)The canines in question have been convicted and incarcerated on several earlier counts of fowl play. They are, in fact, still wearing their "anti-chicken killing" collars (that would be a bucket attached to their collars to slow then down. Don't ask. The BO really thinks this helps).

I personally believe that this particular "hit" was perpetrated against the KCCH (Karmic Chanting Chicken Hoards)in retaliation for crying, "the sky is falling!!" every time the alleged criminal canines were afoot (hence prodding the BO to install bucket-deterent devices on their collars).

In short...you guys are barking up the wrong tree! It weren't ME who did the deed!!!!!! Them dogs is GUILTY!!!!!

PS...Luna says she will NOT be coming forward as any sort of witness. Those pesky birds try to steal her feed everyday and she is NOT amused. She did say that *if* there were say...cookies...involved that she might be persuaded to come forward and testify. Until then, those birds are nothing more than feathered targets for her hind feet!! Cheap floosy!! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It does please the barnyard court, and I admit to having "counted my chickens before the eggs hatched" in voicing my objection, and hence, I respectfully retract it, having now been presented with the prosecutions supporting Eggvidence.
I should like to move that the Convicted Canines be allowed to cop a Flea Bargain in this case...
Furthermore, as no harm was done, we will ignore the comment regarding the possibility that the Equine witness implied, saying that her testimony could be, in so many words, 'bought' for cookies. We move that the defense will not pursue any form of Canter-suit related to possible 'contempt of court' charges, so long as this potential witness is removed from the Witness Rooster (roster)...

[perfectionist]

I have heard of placing a dead chicken around a dog's neck to deter it from chasing chickens, but never buckets...but a good idea! Also heard of flogging them with the dead chicken.

[jilltx]

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Now that was the coop de gras...really...an eggceptional post. It just gave me chicken bumps.

perfectionist...please don't tell my BO about those. The buckets are pretty frightening...to a three-year-old filly who is not so crazy about doggies wearing buckets to begin with. I'd love to see her face when the dog-wearing-the-chicken comes around the corner! She'd probably think, "cool! Two for one target practice!!". http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Me thinks the chickens had already flogged those doggies...hence the hit by the canine mafia. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[perfectionist]

How about putting the chicken in the bucket?

[jilltx]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">How about putting the chicken in the bucket? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


...but doesn't Colonel Sanders already do that???

[bewitchedarabians]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jilltx:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">How about putting the chicken in the bucket? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


...but doesn't Colonel Sanders already do that??? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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and PLEASE----don't take this opportunity for any http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif"choking the chicken" http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif comments... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif

[Irish Ei's]

I can't freeking breathe, here.......

[Nikita]

Doesn't KFC stand for Killed F***ing Chickens? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
Kinda suitable doncha think?

Poor Luna.... I still think she has a murderer for a mom. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

[hiddenlake]

I just got off the phone with a certain Channel 7 news reporter who has conducted an indepth investigation (took him almost an hour). It seems JillTX was involved after all, and is planning a new career selling show chickens to unsuspecting widows. She insists that all she did was pluck a few feathers after El Pollo Diablo was already gone. She had no choice as the dogs had a choke collar around her neck. One of the dogs has moved to Mexico to make money to send back to his dog family and his son is crying fowl.

I expect we'll hear from the dog shortly. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[jilltx]

KFC = Karmic Freaking Chickens http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

You gotta admit; you'll never look at a bucket 'o chicken the same way again. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif
Poor little Diablo...bless his little deep fried soul. Oops! Did I give myself away??

[TB or not TB?]

!!! This thread is hilarious!!

I have another chicken story for ya. I happen to love chickens, btw, because they amuse the heck out of me. When I started going to a new barn, there was a posse of hens that wandered about, which delighted me to no end. I knew immediately that they wanted to be my friends. I was only able to persuade one of them, though, a very old, very large black hen. I used to put her under my arm like a football and take her with me to catch horses, tack up, ride, and everything in between. She was really sweet and fun to pet! Unfortunately she died last winter. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

A new chicken was bought to replace her - another black hen - this time, a frizzle chicken (http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Friz/BRKFrizzles.html). This chicken also wants to be my friend, I'm pretty sure, but she's not as tame. Alas, I've spent many a day cornering the posse in a stall or their barn, trying to let this chicken realize that she's my friend. Thus far, I've only been successful when said chicken tries to escape by jumping into a bucket ( http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif) or when there's someone else to help me catch her.

Normally this someone else is a funny little jack russell who's obsessed with the frizzle chicken. Seriously, he leaves all of the other chickens alone and never even notices them, but the frizzle is quite interesting to him. He's often 'helpful' and will race up and grab the chicken's tail, and I frequently see him wandering around the chicken coop, silently stalking the poor bird. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif He never hurts it, he just pulls out a couple feathers every now and then. I think he's just really fascinated by it. Now we always know where the chickens are, though, if we spot him with a black feather on his nose!

[perfectionist]

I had some frizzle chickens too; odd looking rascals, but pretty calm.

Maybe the terrier cannot understand why the frizzle's feathers are backwards........

[bewitchedarabians]

<span class="ev_code_BLUE">In Memoriam El Pollo Diablo (http://bewitchedarabians.homestead.com/RIP_ElPolloDiablo.JPG)</span>

Feathered Friends, Barnyard Pals, Fellow Horsemen and Country-Folk...

We flock here today to biddy a fond fare thee well to our dearly defeathered friend, El Pollo Diablo.

What can one say of El Pollo Diablo? He was a fine Cock of the barn aisleway, the mane Mother Clucker, beloved and fearless leader of the Karmic Chicken Chanting Hoard, a Righteous Dude. He happily scratched and pecked and scattered the meadow muffins, he strutted and Cock-a-doodle-doodied all about the barnyard. N'er a finer plummage nor fleshy cheek-thingy-doopy-doos have we known...

Dearest, bereaved jilltx---shed no more tears over your freaky little boyfriend...Take comfort in knowing that thou shalt walk through the shadowy barn aisle and fear no more, for he art not there...He has flown the coop to the heights of Heaven, one day to return, as predicted by his followers the Karmic Chicken Chanting Hoard, upon the day that the Sky finally falls...

Roost in Peace, our once-finely-feathered friend. You shalt be remembered with love as "A Good Egg"...http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sadsmile.gif

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sadsmile.gifTabatha http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

[jilltx]

bewitchedarabians...a single tear rolls down my cheek.

Your words are a comfort to me at this difficult time. *lip quiver*

[perfectionist]

I bought a few chickens at an Amish sale in the spring. Among those a rooster and two hens of the GOLDEN SELBRIGHT variety. I found out why the owner sold them; the rooster is an EL POLLO DIABLO. They are in a pen; each time I feed them, here he comes, attacking me and the feed scoop. Fights me through the wire, spurs poised for a good attack. Now, one of his wives is setting on eggs. Will soon have a bunch of devil roosters....

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

Perfectionist - you may be okay. There's a chance this is passed through mitochondrial inheritance, which would be mom. You will know if the chicks hatch with little horns on their heads.

[perfectionist]

I think of this original post about El Pollo Diablo each time I feed this sucker. The term "freakish little boyfriends" gets me each time! Jocko even spars with my horses if they get close to his pen......maybe he was a fighting rooster????? Lot of them around here!

[jilltx]

Oh perfectionist! :no: I think you have the re-incarnated El Pollo Diablo on your hands. Watch out. CHickens like that are just too bad to die.

I have a new, young rooster that has moved into my barn and he makes the EXACT sound of "Spike" the evil Gremlin in the movie of the same name. He has a little cluck buddy, who has a tail that sticks straight up at the top, giving him a wild, bad-boy look.

They are, fortunately, nothing like EPD. The scatter and "Baaa-CAWK" if you even look in their general direction and Luna HATES them. She tried to make pressed-chicken out of "Spike" when he made the mistake of thinking she would share her morning grain :eek: Apparently it was quite a sight, that I thankfully missed.


Beware the evil rooster and his freaky little girlfriends, perfectionist. They're planning dasturdly deeds upon you! It's the CMD mantra; Cluck or BE clucked!!!

[Whisper]

Perfectionist, I had a Sebright rooster who was kind of like that, too. He was fine with people, but tried to pick fights with the cats, the dog, and other roosters who outweighed him by a factor of 10. Ironically, I never saw him hurt any of them, nor did any of them try to fight back. He'd just jump up and down, feathers standing on end, striking in their direction with his beak, while they looked at him like, "Umm, what's your problem?"

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

Do your chickens roost in trees? The BO has a bunch of chickens of assorted breeds, and the roosters like to leap out of the trees onto unsuspecting chickens. The dogs get the eggs, for the most part, so I don't know if the chickies are horny little devils too.

[jilltx]

DG(grand prix)RH...

I think Mistyblue posted on this very thred about her encounters with the silent-but-deadly ninja chickens/roosters who liked to rain terror from above on poor, unsuspecting souls.

I made her shuush...because if EPD would have found out he would have added it to his tactical offensive strategy and NO ONE would have been safe.

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

It's kind of amusing to leave the barn, and as you open and close the gate...you notice chickens "going at it..." they do it a lot like fruit flies...the males hanging on top, the famles sqwaking around and carrying them on their backs...wait...isn't that how it happens in our species too?

[Reynard Ridge]

How on earth did this thread come back? Is it the anniversary of the demise of El Pollo Diablo??

I now have two pet chickens in addition to the laying and eating chickens we raise. Gossie and Gertie live outside my kitchen door. And eat my petunias! Naughty chickens!

We are training them with love, of course. Gossie is now incredibly spoiled and comes running for food (or love, whatever) whenever you step out of the house. She eats from your hand. It's actually rather sweet, although a little terrifying if you are not a person who really likes chickens.

[jilltx]

Oh RR :no: You've been sucked in by the old, "you distract her and I'll eat the petunias" guise. Once the petunias are gone, who do you think they'll be coming after??

Them chickens is crafty.

I'm guessing this thread is like EPD; good to the last bite. (Did I just type that out loud???) :winkgrin:

Last week I went to give the BO's horses some water, and as I reached accross to the offside bucket to fill it I glanced down and saw a dark form floating in the bucket :dead: It was one of the freaky little girlfriends (a teenage-chicken actually) who had fallen in and drowned.

She was the spwan of the deviled-hen who bit the crap out of my finger.
Bad BAD hen!!!

[bewitchedarabians]

Awwwww...I still think of EPD often... :(
I only have one rooster left now (actually he is the only chicken left, period), "Cowboy"...I guess HE is why I often remember and think of EPD...
"Cowboy" got his name as his favorite pasttime is riding my pygmy wether Taz...Taz doesn't like this at all, lol, but Cowboy is an impressive rider, and he almost always makes his 8 seconds...He truly looks like a COWBOY, what with his finely feathered Bantam legs that look as though he is sporting a pair of bat-wing chaps...
Thankfully, Cowboy is not EVIL as the dearly departed EPD was...Cowboy is, however, just a wee-bit "pyschotic" and has a "hair trigger"...While he and the horses and the goats get along fine and don't mind sharing thier feed tubs with him, he can be an imminent threat & danger to the other farm residents...
Cowboy doesn't like NOISE or anything that moves quickly...which perfectly describes my poor little spastic Rat Terrier, Gracie...Gracie cannot go outside unattended...Cowboy makes a bee-line for her everytime...He even "stalks" outside of the back porch, watching her through the screen, lol, DARING her to come outside...Being a terrier, lol, well, the brain just don't work right, and she often forgets that Cowboy is out to get her...Sometimes she'll hit the screen door, opening it and running outside like a fruit bat outta hell, and of course, here comes Cowboy...Gracie just doesn't realize that she is a DOG and is faster and more powerful than a chicken...she draws up in a ball cowering once he catches up to her and just lays there while he attacks...at least his attack of her consists of no more than only ONE little casual peck on top of her head...by that time I've gotten out to save her and shushed him away...He'll go after SOME of the cats as well, if they get too close or come by him too fast...
Several months back, THAT is what happened, one of the cats ran by him too close too fast one morning...the closest thing to him once the cat had run past was my other rooster (White Leghorn) "Slick"...While they had always gotten along and never had any problems with each other, the cat had flipped Cowboy's "hair trigger" switch and he jumped on the nearest thing---poor Slick...beat the absolute hell outta Slick...Luckily I was out feeding and was able to rush in to break them up and save Slick...After that, Slick would never go back into the backyard again, and started roosting on the front porch railing instead of the backyard fence...from there, he started "wandering" and "exploring"...the front yard became his territory, and ultimately, for some reason still unknown, Slick HAD to cross the road (why, oh why, did that chicken have to cross the road???!!!) At least he did not get RUN OVER crossing the road, but he discovered that the store was across the road, and thought it a good place to visit...I chased him back home twice, but alas, he HAD to back one last time...
from eye-witness accounts, the last time Slick was seen, walking by the door to the store, eyewitnesses reported that Slick was "noticed" with great interest by a group of 6 Hispanic customers in a white van...That was the last that was ever seen of Slick...he mysteriously disappeared coincidently coinciding with the departure of the Hispanic gentlemen suspects...I was on the scene within +/-30 minutes of the last sighting of Slick by store personnel and the local groupies, umm I mean the eye-witnesses, who hang out there...I did a thorough search of the crime scene, umm, I mean premises, looking for any evidence. but no body, nor even a stray feather, nor chicken turd to be found...I spent over an hour calling and looking for him all around the store to no avail...he simply "disappeared"....it remains a "cold case"....I can only pray that at best, those that kidnapped him merely took him home to join some hens, or that he otherwise became a pot of chicken stew...but I fear that he may well have been sent into a horrible World of cock fighting...I pray not, as he was NOT a fighter, as Cowboy had already proven what a wuss Slick was...at least if THAT WAS his fate, I can take comfort in the thought that maybe those who kidnapped him certainly lost a good portion of that week's wages betting on him...:( :(
I have found myself often referring to Cowboy using jilltx's "nickname" for EPD---"my freaky little boyfriend"...He is actually a good little "husband" though, lol...Everytime I go outside, here he comes to me, clucking and picking grass for me/finding "food" for me...yes, he is confused, lol, treating me as a hen, but it is actually quite endearing...
Since he likes to ride the goat so very much, I did catch him a couple of times and put hiim up on a couple of the horses (in the past, I've had a few hens who regularly would ride the mares)...he was ok with it/didn't seem to mind, but made it obvious that he prefers to ride the goat only.
So, while my Cowboy may be a bit psycho, I still love him anyhow, and he has become my own beloved "freaky little boyfriend" who keeps the memory of El Pollo Diablo alive...

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We never had chickens, but my best friend did, and we were always hypnotizing and putting them in trances.
In addition to the flipping, if you put their wings over their head and hold it there for a few seconds, they will go into a trance. If you hold them to the ground and draw a line out from their beak in the ground, they will go into a trance. They will just lay there and will not move at all. (When we'd get bored with playing horses, we would mess with the chickens.. mucho fun.)

A random, weird non-country chicken story: We're in Key West, Florida when I'm about 11. We are camping on the Navy base, and decide to go off base to Pizza Hut. As I got out of the van and was walking to the restaurant, I am suddenly attacked by chickens. It seemed that everywhere we went in Key West, I was being attacked by chickens. They interacted equally with the tourists and were wicked wicked wicked spoiled birds. So, if you hate chickens, beware of Key West.

Hey Sarah...fellow navy brat here. I was born in Key West and lived there for a number of years. There are chickens everywhere ..isn't there some type of law that allows them to roam free?

I'm definitely a mammal person. I consider all birds basically rats with wings. I had a weak moment last year and got 11 guinea chicks because my kids begged for them. We raised them from keets to ankle pecking, raucous adulthood, luckily for me (not for them), last fall the coyotes decreased the population rapidly and the two that are left are much more humble.

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[QUOTE=Reynard Ridge]How on earth did this thread come back? Is it the anniversary of the demise of El Pollo Diablo??]

I get the biggest kick reading this post. Maybe because as I stated each time I feed and fight with Jocko I think of EPD.

One of the other critters in his pen makes a funny noise like a gremlin too. Like he is "coughing" when he tries to crow a "ba kaw". Jocko problem did something to his vocal cords.

Someone has been messing with Jocko; he is missing his tail feathers now. I think I will put a mirror in his pen and let him fight himself.....

[grace_herself]

Wow. It even stands on its head?!

hubby and i did that too, he also goes around the room and pees like a dog :D