Anyone else have chickens that hate the color RED??

[PamB]

My chickens HATE red! If I put a tomato in the run, they go spastic and are petrified. One day, I forgot about this odd behavior and put their food in a Folger's plastic coffee container...it was red!! I didn't realize until the afternoon, that they had been avoiding going anywhere near that container all day! (No worries...they always have two separate food sources available). When I picked it up to remove it from the run, they all started flapping around and carrying on, running/hiding, etc. It is just so strange.

 

[WhoopiePie]

weird! my chickens will eat the pieces of red tomato FIRST before eating the rest of their treat (cooked grains and lentils usually). i wear a red sweatshirt quite often to tend to them or clean their coop so maybe they have been jaded by that....?

 

[7L Farm]

My chickens are red.

 

[Medicine Man]

one of my former chickens once pecked at Kate Spade's red toenails.

 

[blueberrychickens]

If I wear sox that have red in them, they'll peck @ my ankles! Ouchy!

 

[banks]

Mine dont seem to mind the color red. In fact I have to be on the look out when I have sandals on and red polish on my toes or even when my hands are lax by my side. The little buggers will start pecking away.

 

[luvchicks8]

Not my chickens but my geese will bite anyone who is wearing red.

 

[Lurken Turken]

They go after my tatoo on my leg that has red in it.

 

[gryeyes]

Odd. The bases of most of the chick waterers I've used have been red, as are those of some strategically placed, larger waterers in the yard. (I put those out after a broody-raised chick fell into the ducks' kiddie pool and drowned on a hot day.)

With that said, I can report that my dominant roo absolutely hates my red Crocs, and the long skirt with a red bottom panel/hem. He becomes fixated on them and gets very antsy, so I get out of those immediately upon getting home from work when I wear either/both of them.

Since the flock greets me in the ftont yard when I get out of the car, it makes the few steps to the front door rather interesting. If I walk fast, it's worse, but if I walk slowly, the mob o'chickens impede my progress.

 

[Chick Charm]

I think most chickens are neurotic. This just proves it.