Hens can also recognize a whole object even when it is partly hidden.Hens have an intriguing ability to understand that an object, when taken away and hidden, continues to exist.They can share precise information about the location of food and the presence of predators using specific sounds and calls. Hens have a “Machiavellian tendency” to adjust what they’re saying according to who’s listening.Hens are social animals and recover more quickly from stress when in the company of others.Hens can multitask, using one eye to forage for food and the other looking out for predators.Soon 93 percent of hens opted for the longer delay with more food. Researchers gave hens the choice of two keys, one that waited two seconds and gave the hen 3 seconds of food, and the other that waited six seconds but offered 22 seconds of food. They do better than toddlers in these tests. Even chicks can do basic arithmetic, so if you shuffle five items in a game, they mentally keep track of additions and subtractions and choose the area with the higher number of items. Geese mate for life, share family duties, and even try to comfort each other when approaching the chopping block.And as I was down quite a few chickens, I was willing to help out.įast forward 24 hours and my husband and I are sneaking two Plymouth Barred Rocks and two Silver-Laced Wyandottes into the chicken coop with the other ladies. People were downsizing and trying to find home for adolescent chickens. Far more than what he deserved, but honestly, I was happy he didn’t end up as Coq au Vin.Ī few days later and I find myself scrolling through the Backyard Farmers Facebook page. Within a few hours, Jackson was on his way to a larger haram. It took two days, about three pounds of sunflower seeds, a sheet and my husband’s capturing skills before we could secure him for travel. She needed a rooster for her 30 hens, now we just had to catch him without injuring him our ourselves. So I posted him on Whidbey Island Backyard Farmers Facebook Page and hoped for the best. I still have a day job and I currently don’t have the capacity to manage a flock, three dogs, a stressful job and a rooster who couldn’t wait to kick my ass everyday. And while I know he was doing his job, protecting his ladies, I grew tired of our daily dance. When our kids were younger we invented a few math games using the colorful UNO cards and some of them we play even now.
However, UNO cards are great for practicing mental math skills. Our kids keep on inventing new rules and cards to make the game more and more challenging. Chicken Math is stealthy and can be facilitated by ordinary objects or people. UNO is one of our favorite games to play. (2) How many chickens do you have right now Right now I. Now that I am older, I would LOVE to live as sustainably as I can. I never thought that I would want one when I was a kid. By the time he reached 6 months, he was a jackass. The Force is powerful, undeniable and knows no boundaries. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens I am new to chickens. I would bring my camping chair into the run and he’d come along and sit in my lap. Our first time raising chickens has been interesting. Ten Buff Orpingtons, five Welsummers (all female) ordered from the hatchery and four additional wild cards from the local farm store: Americauna and Mottled Java breeds,Ī few Buffs didn’t make it shortly after arrival and the rest of the Buffs, except for one, turned out to be roosters instead of hens. “Ooooooo your Black Copper Maran is beautiful.”įor us, in March we started with 19 chicks. The amount of chickens you intend to get doesn’t seem to be enough. For most of us, something happens after you’ve watched your brand new chicks grow to pullets. Chicken math is well known among those who raise these birds.
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