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All in Chicken Behavior
Everybody knows that roosters crow in the morning. If you have roosters, you know that they also crow other times of the day. But have you ever wondered why they crow at all? What’s their motivation?
Do our chickens have emotional lives? People with cats and dogs will attest to emotional lives of their pets. Guest author Claire Dineen suggests that if we watch our flocks closely, over time, we will affirm that chickens have feelings too.
One of my hens is eating eggs! I installed a coop cam to surveil the nest boxes and maybe I’ve actually caught the guilty bird! But is everything what it appears to be?
Somebody’s eating eggs before I can collect them out of the nest boxes. Before I can take any action, I need to find the perpetrator, and that’s not easy! Interrogations would probably not prove to be fruitful. Sitting in the coop 24/7 could waste a whole lot of time. But maybe a coop cam would be the perfect solution!
