Omlet Smart Autodoor - New in box

[katek]

Does anyone elses chickens purr?

 

I have had mine about five weeks (ex-bats) and when they let me pick them up for a stoke or follow me around the garden when I am digging make a purring noise!

 

I'm sure it's a happy noise but shocked me the first time.

 

Is this normal?

Edited November 21, 2010 by Guest

[Redwing]

yes they do purr, when I box mine up to travel they purr away

[Chucky1]

Yes ours do it.

 

Their favourite time of purring is when they come into the workshop. They manage to work their way between sheets of plywood leant against the wall, where there is rich sawdust pickings. I usually hear the purring just before a crash of something falling over.

 

Kamakazi Chook does it just before she jumps up onto the workbench where my saw is - if I'm sawing it frightens the be jesus out of me.

 

I assume they purrr with a mixture of excitement, joy delight - has anyone asked them?

[katek]

Well I'm really pleased mine are settling down, my daughter managed to pick one up today whilst FR she was delighted and then Jilly started purring

 

Samantha is always the last in the eglu, I was trying to fox proof the run - digging a trench, attaching chicken wire to the run and then burying this with limestones on top then re-covering with soil. (although there is not a quarry here I think there could be one in our village so it is everywhere). I was trying to make the run safe in the last hours of light and she went into the coop and then out again looking at me asking for a worm - which I supplied and then purred and went to bed. What a beautiful girl.