WHAT DO THEY THINK LIKE

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

what do chickens think like...

 

[nicalandia]

what do chickens think like...

They don't "Think" they act in instincts. They walk, learn how to eat and drink on the same day they hatch

 

[3KillerBs]

Prey.

Small, vulnerable, tasty prey.

 

[nicalandia]

Prey.

Small, vulnerable, tasty prey.

Also, must not be bottom of the pecking order at all cost even if it means picking on young chicks...

Food, Sex and Pecking order, that is all they act upon on. You are just some random creature that brings them food

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Considering the size of their brains relative to ours, they are quite intelligent. They are concerned with their basic needs: finding food, water, a place to dust bathe, avoiding predators, a safe place to sleep, interacting with flock mates.
It has been determined that they can recognize up to 100 members of their flock. They have been taught to delay gratification in order to achieve a greater reward.
But keep in mind that they don't need to learn how to operate or build a computer, drive a car, do complex math, write a book, etc..

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

With all do respect sir, surely there is more to these creatures then instincts. I have seen more in the way they have looked at me something that seemed to say something more then do you have food for me.. maybe some form of noticeable friendship... Or a questioning of what is this tall creature before me... Or maybe not how do I know for sure.

 

[theoldchick]

My hens think about where to lay their eggs. Should she lay here? Or should she lay there? Should she lay under the tree? Or should she lay in the next box? They also like to think about where the best dust bath area is. Chickens may not be rocket scientist but they do make daily decisions on basic needs.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Clearly they follow Kant's teachings.

 

[aart]

They think......why do humans want us to act(think,feel,behave) like them?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

With all do respect sir, surely there is more to these creatures then instincts. I have seen more in the way they have looked at me something that seemed to say something more then do you have food for me.. maybe some form of noticeable friendship... Or a questioning of what is this tall creature before me... Or maybe not how do I know for sure.
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With respect, if you are linking to Wikipedia in an appeal to authority, you've abandoned all pretense of educated discourse.

Chickens are pack animals. Chickens are prey animals. They exhibit the behaviors common in pack and prey animals.

Imposing human-like explanations for their behaviors, and imagining human emotional responses, in a brain with more than passing similarity to a lizard, a turtle, and a crocodile is an *interesting* view on reality. It is not, however, reality.

Any keeper who has watched a chicken stare longingly thru the fence at fresh food, running back and forth, rather than breaking line of site to go areound the barn/shed/etc (which hasn't moved in all the years of their life) so they can enter the gate on the other side and get at the food knows these dinosaurs would have, eventually, been rendered obsolete by the mammals even w/o the impact of one or more rather large rocks...