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From chick days to the golden stage of henopause, author Melissa Caughey offers insights into the range of feelings that chickens can express, their unexpected intelligence, personality types and flock dynamics. She shares a few pages from her book, “How to Read a Chicken’s Mind,” in the article here.
Source: Countryside. Link.
Chickens, like people, use social learning when determining if something is worth facing a risk.”
Related: The startling intelligence of the common chicken, Scientific American, May 1, 2017. Link. Researchers have just begun to elucidate the true nature of chicken intelligence, but one thing is already certain: these birds are hardly the “dumb clucks” people once thought them to be.