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> "Derrick Parfitt" <dsparfitt@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>"0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message
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>>>serious question!
>>>
>>>no matter how quiet i try to be when closing them up for the night, the
>>>little blighters are all awake.
>>>
>>>i am starting to wonder if they're like cows & hardly ever actually
>>>sleep, just rest.
>>>
>>>my three youngest chickens still don't roost, either. i made them a
>>>spiffy new house with two lovely roosts, & all they thought about that
>>>was to be sure not to bump their heads. they all sleep in the nesting
>>>box. i don't know why i bother. apparently they'd have been perfectly
>>>happy if i'd just made them a nesting box with a door on it ;-)
>>>kylie
>>
>>
>>Remember, chickens have been prey for millions of years (that is, if you
>>believe in evolution).
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>
> "if"?? i realise it's a pretty inane question, but not one that would cause
> anyone to doubt my intelligence, i'd have thought! :-)
>
> The chickens survival depends on being able to run
>
>>from predators whenever they appear. Therefore, they may have developed
>>the characteristic of waking up instantly and being able to respond any
>>disturbance when they have been sleeping. This contrasts with people, who
>>have to wake-up a bit, and I'm not talking about a couple of cups of
>>coffee:), before they can respond to stimuli while they have been
>>sleeping.
>
>
> well, this is what gets me - once roosting, they're not very alert or
> anything. so if they're going to go dopey like that, why not just sleep
> outright?
>
> i'm probably waking them up :-) they seem to have spectacular hearing.
> kylie
>
>
My loo is at the back of the house, then past the veges and the tool shed and
lawn is the chook house with one small netting "window" in the side that faces
my house, and half the wall that's side-on to my house is netting... but the
(netting) rabbit house is built on, on "my" side of the yard the chook house
opens onto. Yeah, you can *really* visualise it from that description eh!
Point (at last) is, if I get up to go to the loo and put the kitchen light on,
on my way through, Himself the Handsome crows before my bum hits the seat! If I
sneak through the house which is dangerous on account of my extreme untidiness,
I can sometimes get away without waking them.
A L P
