Bucky's Backyard Broadcast: Background Links

As promised, here's the page with notable quotes from chicken intelligence researchers. and the study indicating chickens worry. In other words they can anticipate the future and act to influence outcomes. Also, a sample conversation from a fairly typical chicken message board. And in all fairness, I should post to the two essays that dared to talk smack about chicken smarts. There's no doubt that Barbara Kingsolver has a profound appreciation of chickens in Lily's Chickens and When Chickens Fall From the Sky got a chuckle from me despite the "size of a pea" crack. It does seem like the hens get more respect than the men in her family.