Do chicken KNOW we're taking their eggs

[chickenannie]

When I walk past my chickens every day with a big see-through basket of their eggs, do they KNOW I'm stealing their precious, just-layed-eggs? What is going on in their little heads?

 

[DuckLady]

If I take an egg from under a hen, she stands up and looks all around, even stretching down and in back of her through her legs. She makes a soft "bock?" sound, but their little brains forget about it all til the next time. Silly girls.

 

[chickenannie]

I've been told hens are very forgetful...

 

[SpottedCrow]

Unless it comes to food...
Obelisk can recognize the Main Street Deli sub bag by the time I get in the house.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Out of sight, out of mind...

(That's why when someone has been missing from the flock for a few days, they're considered a stranger..)

If it's not where they left it, they don't know if it is their own. Now if you ever try to take a broody's eggs and she sees it you have to deal with this -->

-Kim

 

[chickenannie]

Yeah, I agree, they can certainly remember everything food-related.

 

[Justino]

lol i try not to let mine see because i feel like im stealing something of theirs lol

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I know I certainly felt guilty the first few eggs I took from my girls.

I felt like I was kidnapping their children. However, since I have no one broody, they almost seem to just give them to me, unless they just laid it, in which case I just wait until they get up.

 

[chickenannie]

Yeah, I feel a tiny bit of guilt too, because basically it's *all* a set-up to fool them into laying eggs for US.

 

[WriterofWords]

I don't know about the chickens yet, but my ducks know,,, and they do not appreciate it! They call me names and move their nests.
K