- Nov 30, 2011
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My RI Red is a strange bird indeed.
1. She not hang out with the other birds
2. She does not lay eggs. (They TOLD us she was 1 1/2 years old when we bought her in August)
3. She is always running off. The other day we put her outside to enjoy a little fresh air in what we thought was a secure pen, and she somehow escaped and ran off. She usually comes home in the morning. Once she was gone for 2 days.
4. Se is also happier indoors with us than outside in the yard. In the house, she is alert and curious, wandering about happily and poking her nose into everything. Out in the yard, she just looks lost.
5. Another interesting thing is, we found her sitting on the other hens' eggs.
6. She seems to perfer our company. She likes to be picked up and held, and she will sit on my son's lap and watch TV with him for hours.
7. If you put her in a laundry basket, she will just sit there, but we had her in a puppy play pen and she kept getting out.
On a funny side note, my husband found her and one of the cats sleeping under the kitchen table together.
Does anybody know why she would act this way? We are curious as to any part of this puzzle. Hubs suggested that she may have lived in a barn all her life and is happier indoors and in a restricted area, like a lap or a basket, because it is familiar to her. (Like a nesting box). Anyway, I'm just wondering.....
1. She not hang out with the other birds
2. She does not lay eggs. (They TOLD us she was 1 1/2 years old when we bought her in August)
3. She is always running off. The other day we put her outside to enjoy a little fresh air in what we thought was a secure pen, and she somehow escaped and ran off. She usually comes home in the morning. Once she was gone for 2 days.
4. Se is also happier indoors with us than outside in the yard. In the house, she is alert and curious, wandering about happily and poking her nose into everything. Out in the yard, she just looks lost.
5. Another interesting thing is, we found her sitting on the other hens' eggs.
6. She seems to perfer our company. She likes to be picked up and held, and she will sit on my son's lap and watch TV with him for hours.
7. If you put her in a laundry basket, she will just sit there, but we had her in a puppy play pen and she kept getting out.
On a funny side note, my husband found her and one of the cats sleeping under the kitchen table together.
Does anybody know why she would act this way? We are curious as to any part of this puzzle. Hubs suggested that she may have lived in a barn all her life and is happier indoors and in a restricted area, like a lap or a basket, because it is familiar to her. (Like a nesting box). Anyway, I'm just wondering.....
