{"id":8342,"date":"2014-06-22T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T10:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T10:50:05","slug":"the-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"The experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I said in a recent post that I wondered if chickens could be colour blind I realised that wasn’t really what I meant. What I meant was that Emerald didn’t seem able to see sunflower hearts when sprinkled over a background the same colour as them.<\/p>\n

Chickens have really good eyesight so I wondered if Emerald’s eyesight was less sharp than usual. I decided to do an experiment. I took our orange bath mat and sprinkled some sunflower hearts over it and hey presto! Emerald could see them.<\/p>\n

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The bath mat experiment<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Emerald<\/a>

Emerald can now see the sunflower hearts<\/p><\/div>\n

Emerald is bottom girl and in such a small space she got chased from the mat a few times but even so she managed to get some of the sunflower hearts. Emerald is on the left of both photos.<\/p>\n

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Emerald taking sunflower hearts from the orange mat<\/p><\/div>\n

I wasn’t going to include this photo as it’s not such a good one but changed my mind as it clearly shows Emerald (on the left) taking the seeds from the mat.<\/p>\n

I think this clearly proves my theory that Emerald can’t see the seeds when they are on the same coloured background. She must have a slight fault with her eyesight but it doesn’t cause her any problem (except where sunflower hearts are concerned). I will continue to give her a sprinkle of meal worms when the girls have sunflower hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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