See? Australorp! I think they're smarter than normal chicken breeds, because this seems to be a common thing amongst them. Unless they got something secret in their DNA that automatically gave them an escape plan at hatch. :gig
On a side note though, I have seen my more 'intelligent' chickens...
Mine like to find an inch of space beneath the fencing and go under. Then I've seen other people's Australorps do the same thing, lol. I've had a few birds who go on top of the netting too. :lol:
Yeah, I get that. I used to have Silver Duckwing Old English Game bantams for like six years, so I know them inside and out. Then on Black Australorps, I've only had a few over the years and just some behavior they do I can tell what breed they are without even seeing the bird. Like, "oh, my hen...
You know, I've been that person in the feed store before... I overheard someone saying something about their chickens and I asked them what they had for chickens. They said they didn’t know and described them out and eventually showed me a picture of them. I then went on and told them they had...