Evil Afoot In the Woods... Chickens Freak Out!

[Southern28Chick]

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Yeah I've seen a buck the size of a small horse. Well, not that big but you know I mean.

 

[chickbea]

I think deer make the chickens yell because deer walk so slowly and carefully and stealthily - maybe it is too "predator-looking" for the chickens.
I've never seen a deer as brave as the one in Devora's pictures. A deer that fearless would be someone's dinner in no time around here!

 

[devora]

We live in a place where folks don't hunt the deer (been about 30 years since there was hunting) so maybe that's why they are so friendly. Also, in N. CA there is little for them to eat right now so the smell of chicken feed has brought them up to the house. (Must seem odd to you folks from the south where summers are lush and green. It's a desert here!)

Tes: no idea how to get you a pic but you're more than welcome to it!

 

[ivan3]

Oh, boy, an ungulate predator thread! Similar experience to Devora's and Zenbirder's here, i.e., chooks and turks totally ignore them (even when all they can see are the heads coming up from behind the brush where they spend the afternoon napping (don't know how they differentiate from a fox with only the ears showing).

This is the second set of fawns this year (mid-july) - no telephoto on this shot I'm standing right there and they don't care (once had one let me pick the ticks off its ears). In general I object to them (all Pecan saplings have to have welded wire cages).

Please send some trailers, Speckled Hen, we'll be glad to provide the means for your flock's immersive desensitization therapy!!

(Our chooks and turks are currently going off regularly because the big Pileated Woodpeckers are coming in to eat suet cake - bug population must have crashed back in the woods where they usually hang).

 

[speckledhen]

Please send some trailers, Speckled Hen, we'll be glad to provide the means for your flock's immersive desensitization therapy!!

ivan, you're too funny, LOL! My DH cut walking trails throughout our five and a half acres and guess who uses them more than anyone? You got it, deer and rabbits and whatever else would rather not bushwack through the briars. That's what I can't figure out, why they are so freaked out by something they have to see all the time. Oh, well, chicken psychology, isn't it fun?​

 

[WindyOaksYokes]

Devora, thanks I just stole the picture off the page, hope it stays. Going to have to be sure to print it out soon. Thanks again... Tes.

I think I would have prefered the chicken psychology over human psychology!!!

 

[lurky]

WOW!!!!! Love the pictures!!!

 

[speckledhen]

See? My nutty birds ought to be used to seeing these four-footed locusts!

 

[EboyDog]

That's alright, my guys ventured out the other afternoon to the edge of the cow pasture around the same time the heifers and their calfs were nearby, they were all curious of each other until all the sudden one of the cows bellowed and by the speed the chickens took of for the safety of the garden and okra plants, they must have thought the cows were horrible chicken eating creatures!!!

Needless to say I have not seen them near the cows again.