First – Brady would like you to know that he, too, prefers to settle down into a nest. Of his own devising. This had been a nice tidy stack of newspaper the night before.
I bought a bag of chick grit last weekend, so I figured the girls were ready for their first encounter with Real Food. (The grit is for their gizzards, which is what chickens have instead of teeth.)
One flipped-over board in the yard yielded a nice collection of wood lice, earthworms, and baby slugs 1/4th inch long. I picked out one of each, dropped them into a Tupperware container, and brought them inside.
In hindsight, I guess most people would probably have dropped the bugs into the brooder box. But that just seems so uncivilized. I put them on a little soy sauce dish.
Their first reaction was to cower together in the Safe Corner.
After a few minutes, Martha (the bravest one) ventured out to investigate. Look at how she streeeeeetches her neck out to peer inside the dish!
Eventually someone picked up a bug, and all hell broke loose. Apparently there is nothing so tempting as the bug that someone else is holding. If you are holding a bug, you must run around VERY VERY FAST before someone snatches it away from you. There was no way the camera could keep up!
I would have put them on a soy sauce dish, too. There is no reason why chickens can’t have some elegance!
The dish was about the ony elegant thing in that little feeding frenzy!
Hilarious!
That is so funny!
Chicken fight!
That’s hilarious!
And I need a Safe Corner, too.
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Oh, I LOVE watching the Whatcha-got game. It cracks me up that all the chickens will chase the one who has something, even though there’s a whole dish of the “something” sitting unattended. Who knew Envy was such a major chicken sin?
*snort* awesome. This is rivaling Mr. Burrito, and these stay. So much win. Have you found a cheap webcam yet? Or would it be too freaky to have a webcam on in your house? I could see that, actually.
Brady looks like he’s brooding “like a big boy”! Silly kitty!
Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, gotta git me some most delish bugs.
Love the chicks. I’ve had laying hens for several years, but my flock has diminished, so this year I have another round of babies. Oh so fun!
This is disturbing & gory— my chickens like bugs, but they really like mice! A few years ago a baby mouse ran through the chick yard one adult hen grabbed a leg and then another chicken grabbed another mouse leg and so on– anyway the poor little mouse screamed as the chickens ripped him apart. I was gobsmacked – both facinated and disgusted. I had no idea they would do that.