Why does my hen stick her whole head in the water bowl?

[asteria819]

Okay y’all, this is the only chicken I have do this. Everyone else drinks water normally. This one, she dunks like her whole head in the water. Everytime!! It’s pretty funny honestly. Can anyone explain why?? We don’t have ducks and have never had them! Maybe she identifies as a duck? I wish I could attach the video I have, but here’s a screenshot from it. She just dunks her head, immediately comes back up, drinks her water, and does it again. LOL

She seems perfectly healthy with no respiratory issues from doing this. All my other chickens drink normally from this bowl.

We also have regular waterers where she can’t dunk her whole head, lol. Just one of the extra bowls for water during the soon to be dog days of summer!

 

[darkbaysfordays]

Maybe she has poor depth perception? Idk, some dogs do this too

 

[asteria819]

Maybe she has poor depth perception? Idk, some dogs do this too

The world may never know

 

[CatsandCrops]

Maybe she's hot and she's dunking her head to cool off? Growing up we had a cat who use to do this too - dunk half his face into the water dish to drink, such a goofy lil guy

 

[Perris]

some dogs do this too

our dog sticks his whole snout in the water bowl, and blows bubbles of air out his nose while doing it, presumably to stop the water going in and stinging. (He's always done it too.) I guess some of them are just quirky in their natural behaviours!

 

[asteria819]

Maybe she's hot and she's dunking her head to cool off? Growing up we had a cat who use to do this too - dunk half his face into the water dish to drink, such a goofy lil guy

I thought of this too! She did it before it started to get really hot, but it still could be why. Oh well. I’ll let her do her thing

 

[rosemarythyme]

I guess if it makes her happy?

 

[Neggative]

you should get a good high definition pic! thats halarious!

 

[Rachnicko]

This has made my day!!! Actually laughing out loud!!!

I have no idea why she’s doing that and hope she’s ok. I’ve never seen a hen do that, but couldn’t help letting you know how funny I thought it is!

 

[asteria819]

you should get a good high definition pic! thats halarious!

I want to get a good video of it. I’ll have to upload it somewhere and post a link