Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lady Red]

That's what Beakbook is for.

Except when the whole thing goes down like earlier this week! what is a bird to do??

 

[rural mouse]

This from the Smithsonian Magazine

Here’s how you do it:
All you have to do is hold the chicken's head down against the ground, and draw a straight line using a stick, a finger, chalk or whatever.
The line should start at the beak and extend straight outward in front of the chicken. If done properly, the chicken -or rooster- will be put into a state of trance and lie still for anywhere between 30 seconds to 30 minutes! To de-hypnotize the chicken just clap your hands or give it a gentle push. It may take a few tries to awaken the bird.

Tonic immobility is what researchers call "a fear-potentiated response” to being restrained. In other words, the chicken (or any other animal that exhibits this response) is convinced that it is going to die and goes into a kind of cationic state. According to Beredimas, farmers have known about this trick at least since 1646, when Athanasius Kircher published "Mirabile Experimentum de Imaginatione Gallinae.” The reaction seems to be most commonly reported in domesticated birds like chickens and quail, but other species seem to demonstrate tonic immobility as well. One study from 1928 looked at the response in lizards. Another watched the brains of rabbits during movement, rest, sleep and tonic immobility.

Here is the full article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-hypnotize-chicken-180949940/

Missed your reply when it happened. thanks for finding the science behind this.

 

[Lady Red]

Missed your reply when it happened. thanks for finding the science behind this.

Leave it to RC! She's amazing

 

[BY Bob]

To cute! Exactly what my emily does, i cant get her off my back. She just keeps moving a inch back so i cant touch her and grab her off!

Sylvie just won't hold still. She kept moving around. Everytime Legertha would get set, Sylvie would get up or move around. When they were set it was wonderful.

 

[rural mouse]

Leave it to RC! She's amazing

She truly is! @RoyalChick @RoyalCare your ears burning? We're talking about you....GREAT things! Promise!

 

[BY Bob]

What was Richard Prior Doing with A Chicken on The Tonight Show?

 

[MaryJanet]

How They Are Sleeping Tonight

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Not under the heat plate! Must be feeling warm enough already.

 

[MaryJanet]

What was Richard Prior Doing with A Chicken on The Tonight Show?

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Making it nervous?

 

[Marie2020]

The girls survived but tthereis something really peculiar happened this morning. Amber princess and flexi stool outside the coop while Tina was on the perch and Agatha laying an egg in the main coop

What's happening my world has turned upside down

 

[Marie2020]

Oh wel I have too go back into the mad rush of a day again.

Have a good morning afternoon day or night whatever the time is where you are