Britney The Escape Artist

I thought chickens weren't that smart. I was always told that they were dumb like dodo birds, and that cartoons taught me that they have a pea sized brain. But not with this chicken. I have four chickens and Britney stands out a lot, so does the alpha chicken Ariel, but Britney in the other hand right now is the most interesting. My chickens are meant to stay in their pen we made for them so they wont poop everywhere and accidentally step on them, but Britney doesn't find the pen comfortable. Britney always finds a way to escape the pen and roams the whole entire backyard. 

 

Today I saw Britney on the porch staring at the glass door waiting for someone to noticed her. Well it worked, I noticed her. She got out of the pen. Britney's facial expressionless face lies a buried smirk, a smirk of victory that she is winning. So I immediately grabbed her and put her back. 

Field-notes 9-30

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Chickens are not total dummies. They have a brain like we do, but of course theirs is in a smaller scale.

Britney is a chicken with pea sized brain but she sure knows how to use it. Maybe one day I will keep her in the pen.