pine shavings

My chickens think fresh pine shavings are a fowl game of floor-is-lava

There's nothing quite like watching a chicken discover that the ground is suddenly… crunchy. This poor chicken parent did everything right, let the mud dry, cleared the mess, laid down fresh pine shavings, only to witness their feathered friends stage a full-blown fowl mutiny. The chaos was real: birds bouncing off walls, one frantically attempting to roost on a feeder, and the tiniest hen emerging as the sole brave soul willing to touch the new terrain. It's hilarious, sure, but also deeply relatable. Chickens are creatures of habit, even when that habit is just… dirt. Their dramatic amnesia about those same shavings from their crate days? Peak poultry behavior.