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My Chickens Are Twitching: Help Me Decode This Fowl Play

Okay, so my white chicken is twitching her head and neck like she's headbanging to a song only she can hear, and now my brown chicken is in on the fowl play too. They're both acting totally fine, walking around, cooing at me, but this is the kind of cluck-tastic mystery I did not sign up for. Should I be freaking out about the eggs I've been eating? I'm trying not to chicken out here, but uncontrollable spasms are a whole new level of poultry panic. For anyone else whose heart says cluck but brain says run, you're not alone. Check out our related story, "When your heart says cluck but your brain says run," for more solidarity in feathery chaos.