I learned today:
- Chickens can count: They’re intelligent creatures with basic maths skills, able to count, calculate simple sums and even solve puzzles (so don’t count your chickens – or else they may count you.)
- Chickens can recognise faces: As social animals, chickens can recall people they’ve seen before, recognising up to 100 faces! They also identify other chickens based on their individual features.
- Chickens feel deeply: From extreme happiness (when they close their eyes and purr!), to empathy for other chickens – chickens are sensitive animals. This means, when they’re caged in small spaces with limited movement, they also suffer physically and emotionally.
- Chickens have their own language: They make around 30 different calls to communicate with each other.
- Chickens can see more colours than us: Hens have colour vision and can see red, green and blue light – however, like many other birds they can also see ultraviolet light, which means they see more colours and shade than humans.