Arizona Chickens

[meetthebubus]

Sort of random rant

I'm going to say this:

Chickens can't survive in a garage in az summer with it already being as hot as it is and getting worse soon
Don't believe it, nope.

 

[BlueBaby]

There's a current caption contest that was going on here, and they need more voter's. I did put mine in earlier on the 1st page of it. If you didn't enter it also, I would appreciate your vote here, thank you:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...18-pic-by-bowchickabow.1240535/#post-19907678

 

[nicollee]

I'm 95% sure it was the heat. She was more shy than all of my other birds and often wouldn't go to the cool spots even during the hottest part of the day.

She was a special one. .

 

[Michelle Guynn]

How do you mean? That sounds interesting

Read the book how to speak chicken. It says that after they accept you as part of the flock they will have a name for you. The book is very interesting.

 

[Michelle Guynn]

@SonoranChick I recently did a research paper and
Marc Bekoff PhD, observed in “Animals Matter”, that in science they consider an
animal intelligent by the factors if “they can count objects, locate hidden food and are able to
elude clevor predators”

So that goes along with your cricket story, they are intelligent


All 27 of my chickens know their name some are still learning it well , but all the time I'll call for a specific chicken and that one comes and they have the expression you called?what ya got for me?

My family didn't believe me at first until they saw it Roo had his back turned and they called Roo, and right away he turned and came over although they do remind me of cats in that sometimes they will ignore you when you call

China was the first to show me that chickens learn their specific name she is the most intelligent of all my bubus but my ee Cleo is a close second

Also I taught them signs, simple but easy to communicate signs like 'all gone' and sign for i want to pick you up

Also in a whole I call for "bubus, bubus" and they all come running then, I love to see them turn the corner running

Take a video of that please.

 

[DesertChic]

Oh, my chickens DEFINITELY make sounds specific to me...especially my two extremely spoiled roosters. If either wants attention from me and I ignore their not-so-subtle hints that they want to be picked up and snuggled they each throw a temper tantrum. They also make very specific sounds when I'm cuddling with one of them and my friendliest hens decide they want in on the action. My oldest snuggling rooster will actually hook his beak over my shoulder and open his wings partially as if saying, "Stay away! She's mine!" while making this half screech, half growl sound. (Two of my hens still ignore him, which really annoys him.)

Chickens are also VERY easy to train with color, especially since they see colors even better than we do.

 

[meetthebubus]

i told my semi broody Punky this morning to get out of the box and go drink some of the water i just had made a mud puddle and filled up the drip container for the day, so i went into the mansion and pointed to the door and told her go get some water and she got up and went.

now i don't think she understood the words, but what i think happened was i had already shown the puddle to everyone else, so she was probably hearing about it through them, and then when i pointed to the door, she decided she would go get some too, but she did understand that i was pointing out, etc.

chickens are cool

@Michelle Guynn not sure which part you want the video of, them running or the signs or name, the running part is easy to film, and maybe the names, bc they get a little shy around the camera and retreat a bit (the older ones) but the hand signals, i tried to do a video of that but i don't film myself and i don't want to be out on the internet like that so i don't know how to show it, i do have a video of telling mohawkie to jump up and she did, but that's easy

i'll have to think of how to show some of these things, my hubby said i should wear a go pro on a band around my forehead so i can capture all the cool things i see when i don't have the camera around

like a few weeks ago what roo did was hilarious has anyone ever seen two roosters follow each other up and down the fence, back and forth? well china and roo do that all the time and this one time roo was doing it with his back to the fence so he looked like he was dancing just hanging out and dancing by himself moving his head back and forth, but what he was really doing was following china lol

 

[meetthebubus]

@Michelle Guynn my daughter says she'll help film so the chickens won't feel too close to the camera and it'll get just my arms so maybe that will work and i'll get that filmed soon

 

[SonoranChick]

@meetthebubus I'm looking forward to your videos as well, it seems like you have such a close relationship with your flock. It really is special. I recently got a new job at an elementary school that will start in August, and I'm already bummed that I won't be able to spend as much time with my beloved birds. I know that might sound silly (as my mother-in-law said, "they're just chickens!")...but they are so much more to me than that. I do make a point to clean their poop daily and of course I'll be in there to collect eggs, but I'm used to having the luxury of spending the entire day with them. I'm lucky that I was able to spend as much time with them as possible while they were little chickies and truly get to know their individual personalities.
Your story about roo running along the fence made me chuckle...it reminds me of my Delaware who chases her own shadow along the bamboo fence in the morning she is hilarious!
@DesertChic I have also read that chickens have incredible eyesight, something about having more rod and cones than the human eye I believe. They can see colors and hues that we just can't pick up with our vision. I want to read up more on that subject.

 

[Michelle Guynn]

@Michelle Guynn my daughter says she'll help film so the chickens won't feel too close to the camera and it'll get just my arms so maybe that will work and i'll get that filmed soon

Thank you!!!