I don’t care in a negative way. I am just amused and interested by what my chickens do, and this was new and silly and nonsensical, to my less experienced Chicken Lady knowledge. I wondered if others had more insight into Bird Brain decision-makingI'm wondering why this is such an issue anyways?
Do you really care?..
Maybe more curiosity than concern?I'm wondering why this is such an issue anyways?
Do you really care?..
Exactly. Chickens are mostly so predictable, so steady with their happy little comings and goings, and then one of them gets An Idea!!
After 4 years I am still curious to watch their behaviors and 'decisions'. ...especially when there's new chicks just integrated.
Sometimes it’s just silly chicken decision-making, but there have been times when there was something their behavior was telling me, something that needed to be fixed. Like the time someone pecked on the sliding door and I found chickens strolling the sidewalk 2 hours after dark... alerted me to the fact that someone had left their coop open and a possum has gone in. And the time I opened the coop to say hi, and all the chickens exploded out through the open door like someone had shot them out of a Chicken Cannon... turns out the valve on their waterer was stuck and they were unable to drink. So partly I was just amused by Tillie’s decision to perch on the most impossibly cramped place in someone else’s coop. But also doing some investigation to see if she had some issue that I needed to address.
It’s not higher than her usual roosting spot, but it is closer to the ceiling of that particular coop (because the bantam coop is lower), so it might feel higher to her bird brain
