Chicken flying!

[Delta2 23]

How high do your chickens fly?

My chickens can fly up about 1.5m.

 

[DTchickens]

chickens can fly pretty high. Highest i've seen is 20 feet, and about 40-50 feet distance but that was a gamefowl which are known for their flying

 

[AngieChick]

I am a poor little American beholden to the Imperial system of measurement. Since I clipped their wings they are stuck with a measley 3 feet high (.9 meters for the metric minded). Before they got their feathers snipped, they could fly at least 6 feet high (1.8meters) and thus it would have been only a matter of time before they made it over the fence, which would have delighted my neighbors' little yappy dogs. I didn't realize that chickens could actually fly, versus simply "falling with style" as I had imagined.

 

[DTchickens]

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by feather site some type of junglefowl (which... is kinda more of a pheasant then a chicken but still) Can fly over oceans, i believe its the Green junglefowl

 

[debilorrah]

Mine fly as high as the coop is

 

[Don]

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Hehehehe

 

[Akane]

My little japanese bantams make the 16' high rafters easy. They'd keep going if there wasn't a roof. Yet they still haven't gone over the 2' high plastic garden fence that makes their little yard in front of the coop door. I thought they'd be trying to free range by now.

 

[birdsofparadise]

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I wonder why? Maybe they can "see" a ceiling and therefore go for it. But with "sky" it like looking at infinity so they may stay put.

Any other theories?

 

[UrbanChickenMama]

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I wonder why? Maybe they can "see" a ceiling and therefore go for it. But with "sky" it like looking at infinity so they may stay put.

Any other theories?

Probably more of a respect for "home". From what I read, chickens aren't really that adventuresome. They get comfortable with what is home and they stay put.

My girls have flown over my 4 ft fence, but that's it.

 

[Akane]

They just don't seem to care. They go out the door, scratch around, hide under the board I leaned against a tree stump so they'd have shelter outside, eat some leaves, and go back in. They spend maybe 10mins every hour outside while I have the door open and otherwise they love their coop. Maybe it's just in their breeding since they were developed to stay in backyards and gardens. Next year after the snow melts and I add 8 more standards to the flock we'll see if they range farther.