Brooding hen has chicks in nesting box

[Busybird]

Came across this article which I thought may be of interest

 

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/scientists-clucking-over-eureka-win-20100817-128jl.html

[chickenopolis]

Surely that has never been in any doubt!

Our ladies chat away to us in the morning - they tell me if they have had a good nights sleep, whether Frank the filty pigeon has been round to see them, and whether Flo survived the night laying next to Gloria in the nest box, without being subjected to Gloria's worm burps and trumps (she eats massive worms like a piece of spaghetti, throwing it up in the air and then downing it in one!)

We have a chat when we come back from work, giving us an update on their day in the run, recounting how long it took them to strip a whole sweetcorn cob, and why they now have sweetcorn juice on their combs.

Word on the street is that sweetcorn juice, liberally applied to the comb, wattles and beak is very "this season"....

I'll get my coat....

[Burtie14]

We have a chat when we come back from work, giving us an update on their day in the run, recounting how long it took them to strip a whole sweetcorn cob, and why they now have sweetcorn juice on their combs.

Word on the street is that sweetcorn juice, liberally applied to the comb, wattles and beak is very "this season"....

I'll get my coat....

 

I think the great thing about sweetcorn juice from a fashion point of view is it's versatility. Betty is young and trendy, so likes to wear it all down her back, while Dusty - like your girls - likes to go for a classic style by wearing it on her head. Meanwhile Jim sometimes goes for a very glam-rock look by using sweetcorn juice to attach aubiose accessorises all around his chops.

 

Bloomin' chickens.

[chickenNutter]

So that is what Chiris Evans does when he is not on the radio.......

[the bradley bunch]

you guys are funnier than my chooks ...and madder i reckon!

i love this forum

[chickyhazel]

Of course chickens talk! Ours yell louder and louder when they have lost their friends until we point them out to them! (generally they have lost their friends by turning around ) And its amazing how fast word spreads when we have treats...

[chocolatedog]

Of course they talk!! There's a whole range of phrases including "I've just laid an egg!" "There's an intruder in the garden!" "Yes of course I'm happy ooh yummy corn yummy yummy yummy" "Let me out!!!!!" And more beside.......

[Burtie14]

Betty used a very naughty word earlier. I was playing the cuddling game with her, while my OH was distributing greens to the others. Betty was really rude to her daddy and I almost had to wash her beak out with soap.

[the bradley bunch]

Betty used a very naughty word earlier. I was playing the cuddling game with her, while my OH was distributing greens to the others. Betty was really rude to her daddy and I almost had to wash her beak out with soap.

ah betty...she sounds like a class act! i thought it was only my doris who used the naughty word!