Early Learning

How chickens adapt, despite lessons from early llife

- Michelle Dunn

CAN AN OLD HEN LEARN NEW TRICKS?

A chicken is learning all through its life, but the lessons it learns in its early days leave the strongest impressions. Despite this, it is possible to change this initial behaviour providing that the new behaviour is more in tune with the bird’s natural instincts. My Speckledy hen Brith is a good example of this.