Those of you who think chickens are dumb...you'll want to re-think that. Over the last week or so, we have been giving the girls raisins. They love them! I mean Barbara is crazy for them. So Cal decided to see if he could teach her a trick. It took 1.5 seconds for her to jump onto his knee to get a raisin.
Today she repeated that trick. She has successfully trained Cal to sit in the lawn and feed her raisins.
She has already taught us to open the coop door and let her out ASAP in the morning, or she will cococo until she wakes the neighborhood.
She has taught us not to open up the coop upper door to air it out, until after she lays her morning egg.
The first time I opened the door in the morning and went back into the house, she came to the door in the dining room and raised hell. It only took me 1.5 seconds to see that she wanted me to close the door so she could go up into the nesting area and lay her egg in safety. She promptly climbed up the ramp into the nest and laid her egg. Now I never open the upper door of the coop until she has laid her egg.
Who knows what she will teach us next. She is one sharp cookie. Now Mabel, well she just eats the raisins.
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