Change of View
It’s super warm today. And the girls seemed restless, flapping around in their brooder box and fighting over their own poop. (It’s pretty frequent that one chick will spy something dark and bug-sized hidden in the pine shavings, and start scratching and pecking at it to see if it is a bug, and then her sisters will come over to see what she’s got and whether they can take it from her, and that’s how you end up with three chicks fighting over their own poop. They are extremely cute, but their beauty is matched neither by their cleanliness nor by their intelligence.)
So, I decided to take them out to the coop for the first time. I only planned to have them stay out for a couple hours, but they seem to be having such a grand time in there, roaming all around and scratching in the dirt, that I guess I’ll let them enjoy it as long as it’s still warm. The coop is predator-safe, and I figure it will do them good to have actual bugs to fight over.
UPDATE: No, actually, after having been exposed to real bugs, they’re now going after their poops with twice the vigor. Sheesh, girls.
May 12th, 2012 at 4:56 am
Ha! Chickens are so charmingly stupid. I often think of how ours could benefit from Grover’s explanation on Sesame Street of around, over, under, and through. When they’re in their run and they see me, they get excited and try to go through the quarter-inch wire instead of turning around and going out the (open) door.
May 12th, 2012 at 9:00 am
Ha ha ha hah!