Chook Me!

How is it that hen hatched chicks know to run and hide when the see the shadow or hear a hawk?

They never seen or heard a hawk when they were an egg, hatchery chicks do not have the same Instinct Instinctive knowledge had to be put in them by a high and intelligent power.

Public Comments

1. It's instinctive. Even my pet cockatiels get scared.
2. That bitty knows and speaks to it's mother from inside the egg before it pecks it's way out. It can live 2 or 3 days off of the nourishment it got from the egg. There are certain vital messages passed in the genetic code that the Lord provided, but a setting hen brings it out sooner than a incubated chic can develop it. With the mother hen and the others they learn the different warning calls and what they mean, sort of like a language. Also there are calls that tell about food and it's discovery, and the rooster uses trickery in this regard to attract a hen to get her in range of his main function as a cock. chickens even sing when they are happy and secure, and hens when they lay an egg to brag on.