Does anyone have any really stupid chickens? Like if they didn't have people taking care of them, natural selection would have removed them long ago? I either have a really stupid chicken, or a suicidal one, I'm not sure which it is. I know cats have nine lives, but how many do chickens have? This hen just used four of them up in a three minute period.
She attempted to get eaten by the huskies, four times in less than three minutes.
Hahaha. I had an Ameraucana growing up who was very smart. I taught her to play fetch using a bouncy ball. As an adult I had two RIRs and one BR. They weren't smart, but they weren't stupid. My roommate has three RIRs and one BR. The RIRs are the dumbest animals I have ever seen. I don't know if they are playing some weird game of chicken (no pun intended) or perhaps it's some form of Chicken Russia Roulette. I think the rules go something like: "See who can come closest to being eaten by the huskies without actually dying" or something like that.I had to LOL at this post. I just had this conversation with my husband last night. We've had bantam chickens (hens only) for a number of years now and I thought they were all impressively intelligent. We recently added a variety of new bantams to our bunch and the non-Silkies are all seemingly intelligent. We wound up with 2 sets of Silkies 10 weeks and 8 weeks (mix of hens and roos...have no idea which is which right now) and I swear they are all stupid. I love 'em to death....big giant puff balls...but they are nothing like our older 4 Silkies - who do have brains. Our original hens got the jist of how to things/go into the coop house/stay away from preditors/etc. within a day or so but it's taken me weeks to get these new guys to catch on...and in some cases...I'm still trying!
