A troubling fact about chickens

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Thanks for the well needed laugh.

My birds do that also. I think they do it to make sure I get enough exercise running back and forth checking out imagined threats.
 
Christopher28fair said:
As those of us who have had chickens for a few years know, there is an unpleasant fact about chickens that must not be ignored. Chickens can sometimes be afflicted by a sort of schizophrenia, particular to chickens. Yes, one day, when your flock is moseying about the yard, tending to the usual business of ripping up your lawn, or helping rake leaves in their own industrious, yet unfailingly counterproductive way, one of your hens will start to squawk, and she will stand in that place squawking at 110 decibels, without pause, for as long as it takes to alert the surrounding five-square-mile area that something - an unknown something - something unknown to us and unknown to them, is seriously, dangerously wrong in the world. Is it an earthquake in Chile? A mudslide in the Czech Republic? Another 9-2 Phillies loss? We do not know, and they do not know, but they are telling us with a most emphatic and dire warning call that must not be ignored. And then, as suddenly as it began, the squawking is over. The silence is deafening, by comparison. One can hear birds, a dog barking in the distance, a random motorcycle. The moment has passed.
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Even as a duck mom, I find this totally relatable (and hilarious!) Thanks for the Friday night laugh. :)
 

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