By Gudrun Olaya | Project Leader
It's summer in Colombia, the best time to have fun with the chickens and gain some experience for the future. Our dream-shelter definitely must have a coop and enough space for rescued chickens!!! First, I bought a book I highly recommend (How to speak chicken by Melissa Caughey), which inspired us to create a playground as an enrichment for humans and birds. Chickens are wary and don’t accept new things or changes in their surroundings easily, but they are also curious, so they first keep distance, observing with one eye, looking where to escape with the other. The flock of seven youngsters are always the leaders in exploring, they like colourful things, while the elder ones prefer watching. Now they all enjoy their playground, with a sandpit to take a dry bath, a swing, piñatas and granola bars, plates with fruit and a xylophone and a couple of bells for the musicians!! We humans have so much fun watching Chicken TV!!! Sometimes we share our spaghettis with them and that is really a special program. Perhaps they think the noodles are worms and everyone wants to pick the fattest, and then they run away and hide from the others, so that they don’t have to share their feast. Their best friend is our blind senior dog Topo, because he doesn’t notice, when they steal kibble directly from his plate!!!
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