Although chickens are often considered as really silly animals, hens are actually really friendly and quite smart (for example, they can recognize and distinguish more than 100 faces, both animal and human). But some of these farm birds give up laying eggs and go rogue. It turns out they are quite good at bringing havoc to quiet farm life - from attacking little children and cats to trashing the house once inside, hens and roosters can get really cocky. To teach them a lesson, owners of these funny chickens are doing some public shaming their animals after catching them red clawed, and we love it. Bored Panda has collected some of the best cases of funny birds against the world, and the overwhelming evidence will ruffle your feathers. Scroll down to check out the chicken shaming series and upvote your favorite entries!
P.S. These chickens aren't the only criminals deserving some animal shaming. Check out asshole dogs and cats as well!
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Do your humans help you spell? ag·gres·sive /əˈɡresiv/ adjective ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression. "he's very uncooperative and aggressive" synonyms: hostile, belligerent, bellicose, antagonistic, truculent
Sexist! Though not really. Hens who are bossy and mean are often the leaders of the flock when there isn't a rooster. Here's some chicken mythbusting! #1. Chickens are stupid. They're very smart. A recent study has shown that chickens are intelligent and emotional animals, and are able to "demonstrate thinking skills = to mammals and primates". #2: White hens lay white eggs, and brown hens lay brown eggs. Untrue. It is the breed that determines egg color, and you can tell by looking at a hen's earlobes. Red ears:brown eggs. White: white. #3: You need a rooster for a hen to lay eggs. Do you need a guy to have your period? #4. Eggs are dead baby chicks Yeah, nope. ONLY if you have a rooster will eggs have the potential to grow baby chicks inside, (NOT storebought eggs.) To even grow a baby, the egg must be kept @96 d F or more. For 3 weeks. So...there is no chance you will be eating babies. Learn more, peeps!
My cats would jump anytime my house rooster would stretch his wings or start “talking” to me/seeking my attention ( he liked to sit in my lap and be petted)
"My ancestors were T-Rexes. I try to carry on the family tradition."
This is untrue. Eggs are not 'unborn chicks" Only if you have a rooster, and keep the eggs at a temp of over 96 degrees F continually for 3 weeks will a chick hatch. :)
Load More Replies...Ha, no more stealing my eggs, she thought and disappeared to hatch them away from thieving humans.
After 2 weeks she could come only with foster babies. Chicken need 3 weeks to be hatched.
I want the secret this little fowl has. 11 chicks in 2 weeks is a birthing miracle and could solve the economic woes of the poultry industry.
Like I have said, probably a week before the time.
Load More Replies...I did too. Now I'm testing other accents, like Australian.
Load More Replies...Looks like a Silver Polish rooster... and would love to take a rain-check on your people's song please.
Load More Replies...Now that answers every question I've had about why do some birds sing on and on and cats will start a conversation with you and you are tempted to answer back.
Nah, it's just a symbiotic relationship.
Load More Replies...You shouldn't be surprised. Dogs are gross. I love them, but they're gross x'D Once had a dog that did everything he could to eat my rabbits poop if he saw it so this does not surprise me one bit haha.
Load More Replies...If chicken poops in room, no sees it, then dog eats it, was there ever really a problem?
LoL,this one kinda takes care of itself, if it weren't for this post we would never have known
Awww, looks just like my house rooster, Jarvis Cocker-a-doodle-doer (yes, after the singer from Pulp😁)...he was a small breed and followed me everywhere, got too big to perch on my shoulder when I would go for walks,though.
Try paying her instead of expecting your eggs for free! Same for the cow!
That human is just a hypocrite. I don't see them laying eggs! It's hard work.
My great-grandparents used to have a huge rooster. With shiny green tail. I was probably around four. And positively tiny. And I loved shiny green stuff. I'll let you guys imagine how that ended.
I've had similar experiences with roosters... and last week I got attacked by a killdeer...
Load More Replies...Ooh, if only they produced vividly coloured eggs...save one a lot of time hiding them for easter. 😊
Load More Replies...Sounds like my ducks, mainly the Pekin and Rouen breeds...the khaki campbells and mallards dropped them in one spot; sometimes with the chicken eggs. 😁
A man runs to the psychiatrist and says, “Doctor, you’ve got to help me. My wife thinks she’s a chicken!” The psychiatrist asks, “How long has she had this condition?” “Two years,” says the man. “Then why did it take you so long to come and see me?” asked the psychiatrist. The man shrugs his shoulders and replies, “We needed the eggs.” NUMBER EIGHT:
That's what happens when you let your chickens enrol in Easter Bunny 101!
She. Roosters have a larger comb (the red unfeathered bits) on their heads. But yes, hungry chicken!
Load More Replies...A librarian was very sad and alone in the library one day as there was no one around for her to help. These two chickens came through the door screeching “bouk bouk.” The librarian quickly got up and gave them each 5 books. The two chickens left satisfied. Just a few minutes later the same two chickens come through the door with no books screeching “bouk bouk.” The librarian once again jumped up and gave each chicken 15 books this time. The chickens leave satisfied once again. Then for the third time the chickens returned screeching “bouk bouk”, but this time being suspicious the librarian gave each chicken only one book and explained that they could only borrow more books once that had returned the others.
The farm next door have hens that kill mice, they usaly only eat the brain and leave the body.
Load More Replies...it's rooster after all... why on earth would he go around kissing frogs?
Load More Replies...Bigger chickens will sometime eat live mice with relish - I mean the enjoyment sort of relish, not the saucy kind! Please be warned though - it's not something to go searching the interweb for if you're faint of heart, or of stomach.
We have a blind rooster like this, he actually snores when we cuddle him, so cute but he yells so loudly!
Load More Replies...my rooster would jump kick the back of your knee unless you picked him up. at least she just yells
First of all, shame on you. Second of all, it's a hen.
Load More Replies...No cat deserves that, unless they do the same thing to the chickens.
Load More Replies...I rarely knew who my chick’s daddies were...heck, on occasion, I didn’t know who the mother was since 2 of them would switch nests and brood each other’s eggs.
Oo, oo, oo! Speaking of chicken fakers, have a look at what this girl does to deflect the advances of a hopeful rooster: https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/1560513210670588/
She was me when the boy I flirt platonically flirts me back. (I don't know if there's a thing in English like ''platonically flirting'', sorry for my bad English)
Load More Replies...I guess they boys don't find this bird too a-peel-ing.
this post is making me really scared of chickens and less guilty for eating them deep fried with mustard sauce
Maybe the oter chickens are mean to her? I read about it, it's a thing,they go hide because they are scared.
Def a true thing. They don't like outsiders very much either.
Load More Replies...It might be that the coop is a bit low, or that the highest real estate inside is crowded with the other hens. Chickens like to get as high as possible to sleep, and if you have Hamburgs or similar breeds they'll often end up 30 or 40 feet or more in a tree!
Hahaha my grandparents' chicken do just that, perching on trees like they are just ordinary birds...
Proven that other chickens can be bullies in the coop st night so it’s probably sleeping in the tree for self preservation.. chickens can be really mean
"One of these chicken is doing her own thing, one of these hens just aren't the same"
The group of friends: the nice one, the slightly annoying one, and the REALLY annoying one
I read the first sign as "imperfect in every way" the first time and thought.."you go chicken!"
Whoever tried to finish that cement walk needs all the help he can get. LOL!
Load More Replies...It's not really vomiting. But they can "throw up" things from their crop.
Load More Replies...When you are on a field trip you must count beaks before returning home.
Well, they do say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence...
That is the most unrepentant face I have ever seen! She looks like my hen Buttercup.
The fox is now guarding the henhouse.
Load More Replies...I think that rooster typically do...but what do I know? I only know stereotypes..and now memes.
Load More Replies...probably didn't want to give away her location...the eat hens, you know
This variety is known as a frizzle, and this young hen has a rather spectacular crest so I suspect that it might be crossed with a Polish (which is actually a Dutch breed...).
Load More Replies...Have a few politicians I'd like to introduce you to ... and I "love" them!!
Yummy fat chicken in the pot at the neighbors as soon as the weight is just right.
Seems if mommy stopped bringing snacks, she would stop screaming at the back door eventually.
This one needs a corn broom. It's what I use to break up cat fights at 4 AM.
When he "dances" for you, he is courting and wooing you.
Load More Replies...maybe it's the way he/she reliefs the stress of taking big decisions like those: to cuddle or not tu cuddle,..., to attack or not to attack......
That's the Choreographer for Israel's Eurovision performance 2018!
But she's a chicken, she doesn't know how to spell yet
Load More Replies...This could be a methionine deficiency. Whether it is or not, once the habit's started it's hard to break. You may have to keep them separate until Milly's pin feathers unfurl.
When they lose their feathers they grow back a bit like a leaf - so to begin with they're all curled up tight like a bud.
Load More Replies...What they aren't saying is that Milly is lowest in the pecking order and this one is just above her, she is reinforcing that Milly deserves the abuse. On the farm my grandmother felt so bad for the ones on the bottom of the PO that she'd take the ones that were hardest on her and we'd have chicken and dumplings.
They definitely have tails. Then there are those weird ones with really long crazy tails.
Load More Replies...Some Blucote or laundry bluing on Millie's butt and pin feathers will help disguise the tempting pink of her skin. Worth a try. Wear rubber gloves...
Maybe they need more roughage in their diet... (course/coarse - ah, never mind!). ;-)
Once my mom's goat actually ate her homework, and her teacher didn't believe her.
Never mind a picture of the chickens. I want to see the teacher's face!
and the chicken scratch read "eat me and go to wonderland ".
Load More Replies...My nephew had to go to his teacher and ask for the day previous day homework! Why!?! Because his baby brother ate it! Did the teacher believe him!?! Nope! Had to call my sister-in-law to make sure! Yep! Baby ate it! 😂
not-so-subtle chicken commentary on first-worlders growing consumable food for decoration?
Indeed. Chickens have no time for the Martha Stewart country veranda look - they're pragmatic to the last morsel left lying around.
Load More Replies...Oh my god! Ha ha ha ha. Guess it's a good thing chickens find warm water soothing 🤔
Such a bad chicken. I can see why she doesn't cull you though. I wouldn't either.
Yes, cull means to kill but specifically to slaughter by selection.
Load More Replies...I thought it was normal for chickens to eat unviable eggs so that they could regain those proteins and such?
Sometimes hens will develop the compulsive habit of breaking their own eggs, regardless of viability. They can be trained out of it, but it takes a long time and some people think it's not worth the initial loss of the eggs.
Load More Replies...My then-hen (already cooked as not-crispy chicken rendang) did it all the time..but she was also n*mpho so we keep her a lil' while cz it produce a lot of eggs..we just had too be fast to find the eggs before she ate them..
Chickens lay eggs without a rooster. She's a stong egg layer. Has nothing to do with "nympho."
Load More Replies...There are two things for breakfast- take it or leave it- tomorrow- you may be on the menu...
I suspect that he was raised by humans and has imprinted on his owner's footwear for lurve purposes.
Many chicken varieties like to sleep high in order to escape predators. It's such an ingrained ancestral chicken thing to do that even the more placid breeds will still fight for the highest perch in the coop.
She's broody....mark some eggs and let her set. You will have babies in 21 days! <3
She's broody. Lock her out of the nest box. Cage her with NO bedding material, and make sure there is air flexible beneath her.
Probably less interaction with the rest of the cluckers, right? Introverts of the world unite, seperatly!
SHE TRASHED IT TO LAY POLISHED FOIL EGGS!!!!!
Load More Replies...Maybe your owners should not leave them around. Shame on them, not on you.
Maybe people throw them into the yard. We had problems with that.
Load More Replies...maybe if they weren't laying on the ground?? I would suspect that cig butts may not be healthy for chickens.
Seriously, lit cigarette in the trash? Let's blame the chicken. Moron people
You saw a strip of snack flies, but the sticky paper tangled my feathers.
You sure that it wan't your human trying to catch some sort of a photo for Bored Panda?
What a wuss. My dog would make himself a chicken-dinner with that kind of behavior.
And if the dog fights back, *she* gets yelled at for chasing *us*. We've got it made.
Something tells me that dog isn’t a rottweiler or something like that.
Just as with the trashed garden, that's a part of the job description...
Hopefully she poops on the floor often, salt is toxic for chickens. Or the owner is British and gives her unsalted fries.
The chick is looking for a tight, cosy corner to hide in. Usually it would be under mum, but any port in a storm.
Sounds like something straight out of 'The Egg And I'. (A great book, BTW.)
this is why their feeders only have tiny holes instead of open bowls
I think you mean "steal our eggs" - which explains the behaviour...
Chickens don't know whether or not their eggs are fertilized. They treat them all the same.
Load More Replies...Well, if they didn't lay them there their owner would steal them!
Put an upside down funnel on top, of your waterer. If you are using an open container, purchase a weighted funnel inside the bowl, making SURE that a 2" right of water remains open around the funnel.
The hen is a frizzle, and she's moulting - hence her lack of eggs.
depends on the climate & if you adjust for it or not. in FL, i get eggs year-round; people in NH might have to add light & heat to their coop to get any. the longer the days, the more eggs you get; molting is another reason they stop laying for a while.
Load More Replies...Mutant ninja teenage chicken? Teenagers are all black holes.
Load More Replies...Loved the need of food to take the pic. My dog was like this, only way to ensure he was in pictures or looking at the camera was with food baits
rofl love that the sign is pecked as well... he couldn't wait until even the photo was taken
Hopefully, someone read this sign to her so that she can join in on the shaming.
Or they're moulting and don't have internal sufficient resources to grow new feathers and keep warm AND lay eggs for those freeloading humans, all at the same time.
Or they'very been frightened by....you name it...a new dog, wildlife, kids...
Load More Replies...Plumber on the roof, the not so successful sequel to fiddler on the roof.
OH, that's a "p"! (it's not. You've already gotten MOST of the way, I'm sure you can complete it.)
Yes they are, actually. Chickens are very trainable. I've even seen chicken agility!
Load More Replies...Chickens can't control their bowls, it's something their body does automatically. Yet u can train their brain for other things.
Those are some spurs he has got going on his feet. Hate to get scratched by those.
I had a hen with a sprained leg live inside with me for a week. Lovely little girl.
Load More Replies...Yes. There are tiny glasses for chickens for that they calm down and don't peck at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses
Load More Replies...Nicely decorated pins! (Like horse blinders...to keep the bird from pecking / plucking flockmates.
Would you rather the chickens pulled each others feathers out and plucked each others eyes out?! These aren't stupid novelty items they are genuine medical devices. The ones above help to calm overwrought chickens, say if they had to be examined by the vet etc. There are also ones with clear lenses that allow them to see each other but remove the ability to permanently damage each other.
Load More Replies...Quite a few chicken owners will house them indoors while coop repairs are going on, because of the predator problems. One of my friends had a resident hawk near her property, so when they had to fix the chicken wire over the run, the hens were in a room in the house.
Load More Replies...as im reading these i feel like i hear a soft clucking noise behind me somewhere
Farmers? I think you mean city folk who bought an acre of land in the suburbs and now think they are farmers.
Serious question - does this take away from the desire to eat them or is that compartmentalized?
From what I understand, in some cases it intensifies the urge to eat them.
Load More Replies...Is it just me or are chicken owners more eloquent at shaming their chickens than most dog or cat owners? Some of these are really well written.
Love the one who had 10 kids and had no idea who the father was. She seemed to be very content with her promiscuous life style.
Load More Replies...I just recently experienced cannibalism in chickens for the first time. The poor pullet was missing half her neck when we found her. You could see a pipe and some juices in her wound. Anyways we separated her and she has now made a full recovery! We've decided to name her 'lucky'.
Chickens will attack a chicken if it has any visible defect. I remember that from my grandfather's ranch. He had some chickens; we never ate them, because he had made them all pets. He also had two greyhounds who never raced. My uncle kept a cow there; my mother wouldn't let me drink her milk because it wasn't pasteurized; she was also a pet. My Dad had two horses: a Palomino stallion called Chief, beautiful animal. Nuisance, a lovely gelding we could all ride. My grandfather built a tack barn, stables and a corral. He built my parents a house, my aunt and uncle a house. He built my SF fashionista a large home with a library, and took her to the City for shopping and plays. He built a motel and a gas station/market adjacent to the 99 highway. His freezer had huge ice creams drums which smelled wonderful. A kid's paradise with a large cemetary down the road with large roadways and a mausaleum where my best friend and I gave grand balls, announcing Duke and Duchess so and so
Load More Replies...They really do make great pets (Pornos for Pyros pun intended). My dad had started raising them, I rolled my eyes but became enamoured with them. I went as far as to raise one in my house when his mom abandoned him the day he hatched. Named him after the singer for Pulp ... Jarvis Cocker
JUST by curiosity, how do you manage hen poop into the house ?
Load More Replies...it's funny how the chickens that look the gentlest are the most aggressive mean ones (:
Quite a few chicken owners will house them indoors while coop repairs are going on, because of the predator problems. One of my friends had a resident hawk near her property, so when they had to fix the chicken wire over the run, the hens were in a room in the house.
Load More Replies...as im reading these i feel like i hear a soft clucking noise behind me somewhere
Farmers? I think you mean city folk who bought an acre of land in the suburbs and now think they are farmers.
Serious question - does this take away from the desire to eat them or is that compartmentalized?
From what I understand, in some cases it intensifies the urge to eat them.
Load More Replies...Is it just me or are chicken owners more eloquent at shaming their chickens than most dog or cat owners? Some of these are really well written.
Love the one who had 10 kids and had no idea who the father was. She seemed to be very content with her promiscuous life style.
Load More Replies...I just recently experienced cannibalism in chickens for the first time. The poor pullet was missing half her neck when we found her. You could see a pipe and some juices in her wound. Anyways we separated her and she has now made a full recovery! We've decided to name her 'lucky'.
Chickens will attack a chicken if it has any visible defect. I remember that from my grandfather's ranch. He had some chickens; we never ate them, because he had made them all pets. He also had two greyhounds who never raced. My uncle kept a cow there; my mother wouldn't let me drink her milk because it wasn't pasteurized; she was also a pet. My Dad had two horses: a Palomino stallion called Chief, beautiful animal. Nuisance, a lovely gelding we could all ride. My grandfather built a tack barn, stables and a corral. He built my parents a house, my aunt and uncle a house. He built my SF fashionista a large home with a library, and took her to the City for shopping and plays. He built a motel and a gas station/market adjacent to the 99 highway. His freezer had huge ice creams drums which smelled wonderful. A kid's paradise with a large cemetary down the road with large roadways and a mausaleum where my best friend and I gave grand balls, announcing Duke and Duchess so and so
Load More Replies...They really do make great pets (Pornos for Pyros pun intended). My dad had started raising them, I rolled my eyes but became enamoured with them. I went as far as to raise one in my house when his mom abandoned him the day he hatched. Named him after the singer for Pulp ... Jarvis Cocker
JUST by curiosity, how do you manage hen poop into the house ?
Load More Replies...it's funny how the chickens that look the gentlest are the most aggressive mean ones (:
