It's new to me at least. Earlier today I was out tosssing the last of the mealworms I had to my duck, she happily gobbled up every single one. Half a day later, just a few minutes ago, while out dumping my duck's bin, Nugget, one of my RIRs found an abandoned crushed up mealworms and ran a couple feet away. Once there she started to make strange 3 syllable noises, like - "Bweop bweop bwep" with each one faster than the other. While making those she picked up and tossed the mealworm, several times. The closest chicken to her was Hawk, my EE. She ran over to inspect, saw the mealworm, but hesitated once she noticed it was Nugget carrying it. Nugget simply stared at her with the mealworm in her mouth. None of my 5 would typically dare to steal something from Nugget, since she was the leader and my EEs weren't exactlly high up in the pecking order. Still, Nugget persisted and walked over to hawk, shoved the mealworm in her face, and once Hawk took it she continued her normal chicken buisness like northing happened. So uh, do chickens do this? Or was Nugget the usually mean and bossy leader feeling a little generous today? I've never seen this before and Nugget is indeed a girl!
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