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Amazing Chicken Facts
- A mother hen talks to her chicks before they hatch. As soon as the chicks can hear and talk back they are having conversations through the shell!
- Chickens have complex conversations with one another. And of course everything a chicken says has a meaning.
- Chickens are one of the top 10 smartest animals. You can even train a chicken.
- Many people believe that when a rooster crows it means "Look at me!"
- A rooster crows all day, not just in the morning. They begin crowing in the morning and stop crowning in the late evening.
- Chickens can fly. They can not fly for long distances but can fly a good ways up. Bantams can fly higher than large fowls.
- Chickens love to dust bathe
- Chickens have amazing memories. They can remember over 100 different individuals. They have to remember every flock member and where they are in the pecking order!
- Chickens are a lot smarter than young children, and though we don't know, they may be smarter than the average human.
- Chickens are the closest living relative to dinosaurs.
- Chickens have the ability to assume that an object still exists even if it has been hidden. Most children do not have this ability and develop it with age.
- Chickens have to memorize something called the pecking order. It is the order of who is allowed to peck who. It is part of their complex community aka a flock.
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And I sure can tell 'ya that roosters crow ALL DAY LONG!!!! And that's a FACT!!!!
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