Monday, July 29, 2013

Who's In Charge?

Chickens live by a strict hierarchy.  It's called the *pecking* order.  In our coop, Fitz is in charge and Bill is second in command.  I believe that Bruiser is third and Lou is fourth in line, but Bruiser and Lou, being the young ones, seem to switch back and forth.  In the coop, the birds hang out mostly in pairs, Fitz and Bill on one side and Bruiser and Lou on the other.  There are those special times when they are all together, for example, when grapes are tossed into the coop.
Here's the mama hen holding the True Mama Hen, Fitz.
 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

You should strap your fit bit to one of the chickens' legs and see how many steps they take!

allikpeters said...

Great idea, but it would be hell calibrating the thing to a tiny chicken-step-length!