Examples Of Chicken Intelligence

[Shadrach]

Some years ago when I was living in a shared house in Spain it was decided that the fridge door should open from the other side and the dood furniture was arrange accordingly. We all continued to try to open the door from the original orientation for months.
I used to move the chicken coops to fresh ground from time to time and sometimes turned them a complete 180 degrees. The chickens worked this out in one night.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have chickens that'll put themselves back when I open their door after free ranging.

 

[Shadrach]

I have chickens that'll put themselves back when I open their door after free ranging.

I could never get the kids to do that.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I have chickens that'll put themselves back when I open their door after free ranging.

Mine will do this too! If I leave the gate open to the run they will eventually go back in by themselves. It’s really nice

 

[user651618]

Mine have learned that if I catch them on the porch and I quickly remove one of my flip flops, they need to run.

 

[The Coop Crew]

Mine have learned that if I catch them on the porch and I quickly remove one of my flip flops, they need to run.

This a memory of being spanked with a flip flop comes to mind immediately

 

[LoveOfFeathers]

I ignored my rooster, Casanova tonight when he hinted that he was ready to go up for the night and that his door was closed. Casey cocked his head and stared at me then looked towards his coop, glanced back at me and walks towards the door. I ignored him bc i figured he was acting weird due to his girlfriend being in the play pen. Nope, he couldn’t care less about her, he wanted to go up for the night and be put to bed now. He then jumps four foot into the air while flapping dramatically, lands on his feet and stares at me, takes a few steps and stares up at the closed door. He stood still to be picked up and placed into his pen, his pen is hung with the floor height at the top of my shoulders, talk about an awkward height.