Their sprint is about as fast as a four year-old human's sprint.
For some reason, when chickens stretch their legs, they must also stretch the wing on the same side of their body as the stretched leg. I don't understand the anatomy of this action.
Another thing I learned recently is that poop comes out of the same hole that eggs do. (Ew.) I've been washing my eggs thoroughly before use since learning that.
I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of living with chickens. They are not trainable, so you can't train them where to poop or to be silent during the night. I often spray them with water as they walk into my house, hoping they will eventually learn that walking into my house is equal to being sprayed with water. They instead see it as a game.
Our chickens live on our homestead! Sometimes, we have the idea to build a coop out of cinderblocks, but we end up needing the cinderblocks for a different project. While I personally am not the biggest fan of chickens, I am very happy that these chickens get all this space to wander during their lives. When we slaughter the chickens to eat, I am reminded that they lived a much better life than any chicken in the US, where many chickens are raised in overcrowded warehouses and never go outside. The chickens in Eswatini can even leave the homestead during the day, but they come right home in the evening because they know they will find food there.
