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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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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
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/
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Erika Kauffmann 7 years ago
Maybe the oter chickens are mean to her? I read about it, it's a thing,they go hide because they are scared.
Ashley Say Wha?!? 7 years ago
Def a true thing. They don't like outsiders very much either.
Load More Replies... Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
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!
Heather Kong 7 years ago
Hahaha my grandparents' chicken do just that, perching on trees like they are just ordinary birds...
Gay Johnson 7 years ago
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
MN Free Spirit 7 years ago
"One of these chicken is doing her own thing, one of these hens just aren't the same"
Ellen Daniels 5 years ago
Lighter bodied breeds can fly up and for a bit of a distance--usually egg layers. Most dual purpose breeds could make it up a tree, also. Heavy bodied "meat" breeds often can't get very high off the ground, and can injure their feet & legs if they jump down from too high of a roost.
Aldhissla VargTimmen 7 years ago
I have a rooster who does that, as long as he's safe from the foxes that roam around here at night I don't mind :)
The Laugh Fan 7 years ago
Absolutely. Chickens will roost in trees quite happily.
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Lynn Korbel 7 years ago
Such a bad chicken. I can see why she doesn't cull you though. I wouldn't either.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
Just as with the trashed garden, that's a part of the job description...
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Rama Llama 7 years ago
Hopefully she poops on the floor often, salt is toxic for chickens. Or the owner is British and gives her unsalted fries.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
The chick is looking for a tight, cosy corner to hide in. Usually it would be under mum, but any port in a storm.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
Well, if they didn't lay them there their owner would steal them!
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
The hen is a frizzle, and she's moulting - hence her lack of eggs.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
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.
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Casandra Nițescu 7 years ago
Plumber on the roof, the not so successful sequel to fiddler on the roof.
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Karen Klinck 5 years ago
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.
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BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
as im reading these i feel like i hear a soft clucking noise behind me somewhere
Will Smith 7 years ago
Farmers? I think you mean city folk who bought an acre of land in the suburbs and now think they are farmers.
Jay Raman 7 years ago
Serious question - does this take away from the desire to eat them or is that compartmentalized?
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
From what I understand, in some cases it intensifies the urge to eat them.
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Jill 7 years ago
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.
Chris Miilu 7 years ago
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.
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GlassOfWater 7 years ago
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'.
Chris Miilu 7 years ago
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
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Sebastian Melmoth 7 years ago
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
Ginette Boudreau 7 years ago
JUST by curiosity, how do you manage hen poop into the house ?
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v-nikiforov 7 years ago
it's funny how the chickens that look the gentlest are the most aggressive mean ones (:
Borgia 137 6 years ago
i was so disappointed, that i haven't seen this in comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pknnncODo
Mae 7 years ago
Poor chicks having to lay all those eggs all the time :( I'd totally want to have chickens if I had a big garden but not have any eggs, it's painful for them. We can yet again blame that on the breeding.
Reid Hughes 5 years ago
Not true. It doesn't pain them unless the egg gets stuck.
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Sanne H. 7 years ago
I love how the beaks of all these chickens are still intact. In NL, the beaks are usually partially cut off at an early age. 😢
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Those are 'factory chickens'. It's done so they can't peck each other. These are egg chickens--the eggs rolls down the slope of the nesting box to a conveyor belt. At soon as they stop producing at top speed they become chicken parts for dinner.
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Jill 7 years ago
I still can't believe that owning chickens is now a thing...in Silicon Valley. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/02/feature/the-silicon-valley-elites-latest-status-symbol-chickens/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.33f96b5d2ee9
Karen Klinck 7 years ago
I live within city limits. I was astonished to discover that we can have '3 chickens per person' (but no roosters) within city limits, per the latest on-line rules. Me, I want Easter Egg hens.
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Karen Klinck 5 years ago
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... BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
as im reading these i feel like i hear a soft clucking noise behind me somewhere
Will Smith 7 years ago
Farmers? I think you mean city folk who bought an acre of land in the suburbs and now think they are farmers.
Jay Raman 7 years ago
Serious question - does this take away from the desire to eat them or is that compartmentalized?
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
From what I understand, in some cases it intensifies the urge to eat them.
Load More Replies... Jill 7 years ago
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.
Chris Miilu 7 years ago
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... GlassOfWater 7 years ago
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'.
Chris Miilu 7 years ago
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... Sebastian Melmoth 7 years ago
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
Ginette Boudreau 7 years ago
JUST by curiosity, how do you manage hen poop into the house ?
Load More Replies... v-nikiforov 7 years ago
it's funny how the chickens that look the gentlest are the most aggressive mean ones (:
Borgia 137 6 years ago
i was so disappointed, that i haven't seen this in comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pknnncODo
Mae 7 years ago
Poor chicks having to lay all those eggs all the time :( I'd totally want to have chickens if I had a big garden but not have any eggs, it's painful for them. We can yet again blame that on the breeding.
Reid Hughes 5 years ago
Not true. It doesn't pain them unless the egg gets stuck.
Load More Replies... Sanne H. 7 years ago
I love how the beaks of all these chickens are still intact. In NL, the beaks are usually partially cut off at an early age. 😢
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Those are 'factory chickens'. It's done so they can't peck each other. These are egg chickens--the eggs rolls down the slope of the nesting box to a conveyor belt. At soon as they stop producing at top speed they become chicken parts for dinner.
Load More Replies... Jill 7 years ago
I still can't believe that owning chickens is now a thing...in Silicon Valley. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/02/feature/the-silicon-valley-elites-latest-status-symbol-chickens/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.33f96b5d2ee9
Karen Klinck 7 years ago
I live within city limits. I was astonished to discover that we can have '3 chickens per person' (but no roosters) within city limits, per the latest on-line rules. Me, I want Easter Egg hens.
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