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Post by mogal on Dec 30, 2020 22:55:47 GMT
My usual barn coat is a ratty, tattered blue jacket that comes far enough below my waist to help keep my back warm. I have another coat, a brown one that's not worn out, that I wear with jeans to farm related stuff, auctions, etc. So, this afternoon, DH and I went to an online auction preview and I wore the brown coat. It was almost time to feed when we got home so I headed to the chicken coop to give them some scratch grains and remove their feeder. I keep it in a large trash can overnight so I don't feed every mouse in the county. As soon as I got in the door, five of the 9 hens high-tailed it to their pop hole and wouldn't come back in when I called. I had to come back to the house to get that old blue coat. They were just fine with me then. Silly chickens. The goats didn't care what I was wearing, just happy to get more hay for the night.
My vote is yes.
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Post by stickinthemud on Dec 31, 2020 5:22:08 GMT
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Post by mzgarden on Dec 31, 2020 10:17:40 GMT
I'd guess yes - they certainly can tell red tomatoes from orange or yellow ones when I clean up the garden.
On a little sidenote - I have one goat girl that will absolutely hide from me if I'm in a skirt. - Shorts, long pants, no problem, long coat, short coat, no problem. If we'd been squaredancing (not now of course) and I slipped on my barn shoes and went out to check on them, everybody else was fine but her. She'd run behind a stall wall and peak around. I had to ask my DH if my knees were really that bad, lol.
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Post by mogal on Dec 31, 2020 12:19:02 GMT
mzgarden, our goats have done the same thing on the rare occasion they see me in a skirt.
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 31, 2020 15:34:47 GMT
I never thought about that, but now that you mention it mogal, I think Loretta could see colors, because whenever I got her "treat" red jar out, before I shook it to get her back into the coop, she would come running when she saw me or Meg holding the treats. |
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Post by mogal on Dec 31, 2020 20:33:14 GMT
ditto WOW, stickinthemud! |
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Post by Maura on Dec 31, 2020 22:12:02 GMT
Just throw some corn on the ground and see how they react.
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Post by mogal on Jan 1, 2021 0:24:11 GMT
Maura, I grew some blue corn one year and on a whim, I gave our hens some. They wouldn't touch it. Did they not recognize it as food? All the corn they've had to that point was plain old yellow.
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Post by countrymom22 on Jan 1, 2021 0:31:00 GMT
I say YES! Since chickens don't have a sense of smell (at least that's what I've been told), I would think that they would have to be able to see colors to know what to eat and what to stay away from. We had a rooster that got into a chicken fight and had both of his eyes pecked out. I tried to feed him by hand but he couldn't see the feed and wouldn't even try so we had to put him down.
My bucket for kitchen scraps is white and the one I use for weeding is red. If the girls see me coming with the white bucket they get super excited. If I have the red bucket I get ignored. The buckets are the same shape and size. And the compost pile is directly behind the chicken coop so I'm heading in the same exact direction no matter which place I'm going.
A chicken's eyes probably see as well as we do, in my opinion.
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