Mensa hen

Now THIS is a highly intelligent chicken!  I had a couple beef fat scraps in the top of the lunchtime food bucket.  I saw her snatch one and vanish.  Then I saw her here, squirmed into the chickery cage, where she was completely safe from the other hens trying to grab it from her.  Very clever.  Enjoying her meat scrap in peace.   Before.I gave them a "fresh" (months in climate controlled container ship  transit and on the shelf, before being marked down, I'm sure) coconut chopped open.  It had fermented.After.Today I greased all the wretched new chickens' feet.  Their feet are horrible, mite infected to point of deformity.  It will take some rehab.  The hens aren't so bad.  I subsequently moved all the treated hens over to Silkieland hen sanctuary, from new chicken quarantine corner.  I left the roos.  I was in there with them for quite awhile for foot treatment, and all they want to do is fight.  They can't be dissuaded from it by casual separation.  Fight fight fight.  I was about to release them into gen pop, but thought I'd wait on that after all.  Give Philippe a couple days to establish his total dominance before the Silkies mix it up.  He looks sad.  I think partly the white just shows the blood better.  He's on the big side and didn't look like he was losing.The hens also spent some time fighting.  Their funny little jump in the air fighting - it's not so scary.  They have to work out their order.  But the new girls were acting normal all day, snacking and lounging and dozing instead of just hiding, so that's an improvement for them.