So our white leghorn Blitz, is naturally very jumpy and spazzy, my fiancé thinks it's because she is dumb, but I think it's actually because she's very smart! I've recently observed a behavior that proves my case and just wanted to share it!
We planted crimson clover last year for our butterfly garden(which attracts more bees than anything but I'm OK with that). They died and dried up a while ago and I've been collecting the seeds to plant some in our garden beds for green manure this fall. Anyway, I wanted to see if the girls had any interest in the seeds and they actually really love them! The thing is though they are incased in the dried husk of the flowers, which are rather prickly and probably not very tasty;
They will peck at my fingers to get the seeds as I push them out of the husk, sometimes eating the whole husk, but mostly just discarding them if they don't immediately get what they are after. But Blitz has figured out how to get into the husk herself and she knows which husks are empty and which aren't. Maybe I'm over reacting but I find this very much on the level of a parrot who is smart enough to shell sunflower seeds and eat the meaty insides. Anyway, I caught her on video next to the clover having a go at the seeds. Hope this is at least interesting to some
I don't take many videos with my phone cause it's full of photos... I might need to learn some better skills with it soon, the upload seems to have done some sort of stabilizer effect which is odd but also interesting...
Thoughts?!
We planted crimson clover last year for our butterfly garden(which attracts more bees than anything but I'm OK with that). They died and dried up a while ago and I've been collecting the seeds to plant some in our garden beds for green manure this fall. Anyway, I wanted to see if the girls had any interest in the seeds and they actually really love them! The thing is though they are incased in the dried husk of the flowers, which are rather prickly and probably not very tasty;
They will peck at my fingers to get the seeds as I push them out of the husk, sometimes eating the whole husk, but mostly just discarding them if they don't immediately get what they are after. But Blitz has figured out how to get into the husk herself and she knows which husks are empty and which aren't. Maybe I'm over reacting but I find this very much on the level of a parrot who is smart enough to shell sunflower seeds and eat the meaty insides. Anyway, I caught her on video next to the clover having a go at the seeds. Hope this is at least interesting to some
I don't take many videos with my phone cause it's full of photos... I might need to learn some better skills with it soon, the upload seems to have done some sort of stabilizer effect which is odd but also interesting...
Thoughts?!
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