Odd incident

[SamLockwood]

There's no real question here, or even a problem, I just thought this was an interesting behavior.

The other evening as I was getting ready to lock the birds up for the evening I notced one of my younger hens, Ghost (I nicknamed her due to her unique "arctic camo" plumage in the flock) was loitering outside the run. When I pointed to the run to tell her to go inside she started skqawking quietly at me and making her way towards the front yard, looking back every couple of steps to make sure I was following her.

She quickly jogged ahead and by the time I got to the yard I could hear her walking across the front porch. When I got on the porch she was squatting under the shelving unit there and scratching. When she saw I was there she hopped out from under that area and jogged past me and headed back towards the coop.

Sure enough there was an egg she'd laid earlier in there. I picked it up and by the time I got to the back yard I saw her jogging into the run.

Weird, weird, little bird.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Chickens sure are entertaining.

 

[tlcmurphy]

Can I borrow her to find my car keys?

 

[KS_Chicken_Wrangler]

Chickens never cease to amaze me. I'm always amazed just how high my Ameraucana rooster will fly to be up high and yell at the world. I thought they were considered a "heavy" breed, but no one told him. Just got done putting a temp top on the run so we can keep him in. Chickens, man...LOL