MJ's little flock

[BY Bob]

Clog checks are part of the morning routine.

It's getting easier to tell Nancy and Nelly apart. Nancy has the yellow head, Nelly the white.

I love how they can both peck and discuss at the same time.

 

[BY Bob]

Nancy stood still long enough for a sweetheart photo.

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So darling.

 

[Shadrach]

Clog checks are part of the morning routine.

It's getting easier to tell Nancy and Nelly apart. Nancy has the yellow head, Nelly the white.

I would be tempted to try an experiment and see what happens if you scrape the ground with the clogs, imitating the actions of a mother hen digging to find food. You could even bury some grains or similar and then return to that spot with the chicks and uncover the grains using your feet.
If you scratched as a hen does would the chicks learn to get in front of your foot rather than behind where the get covered in the dirt their mother kicks up.

 

[BY Bob]

I would be tempted to try an experiment and see what happens if you scrape the ground with the clogs, imitating the actions of a mother hen digging to find food. You could even bury some grains or similar and then return to that spot with the chicks and uncover the grains using your feet.
If you scratched as a hen does would the chicks learn to get in front of your foot rather than behind where the get covered in the dirt their mother kicks up.

I love this idea.

 

[RoyalChick]

I love this idea.

In the spirit of acting like a chicken some of you may remember when I had a dust bath with Maggie.
This was an unintentional experiment but clearly demonstrated that Maggie as a pullet would copy what I did.
I was lying supine flat on the ground fixing some gaps in hardware cloth in the undercarriage of the Chicken Palace and Maggie concluded I was taking a dust bath and joined me in the tub.
It was specifically my head that she concluded was taking a bath.
I don’t recommend dust bathing for people, though it does seem to work well for chickens.