Okay, I am very new to world of pet chickens. My 4 girls are only 3 1/2 months old (my two other Cochins are 4 weeks old). The older ones live in their coop and run, but I occasionally let them have the run of the backyard (we are suburbanites in Orange County, CA). Anyways, if they are out in the yard, right before dusk, they just stop what they are doing and stand still like statues. Sometimes as long as 10 minutes!!! Every once in awhile they will do it during the day too. They DO NOT move or make a sound. I have looked around the yard and there is no type of predator (which would only be the neighbors cat or the occasional Coopers Hawk flying above). They only start to move and cluck when the "head chicken", a Barred Plymouth Rock named Willow, does first. Why do they do this??? Does everyones chickens do this??
Thanks!
By the way, I LOVE my girls!! (Just a city mom of 3 cats, 6 chickens, 1 rabbit, and two little rambunctious human boys)
-Jenna
Thanks!
By the way, I LOVE my girls!! (Just a city mom of 3 cats, 6 chickens, 1 rabbit, and two little rambunctious human boys)
-Jenna