DEAD CHICKENS!

No, just kidding.  They certainly look dead.  One of our recent warm days (& probably last for the year), the chickens enjoyed the warm spot in their coop by having a group Dust Bathing Party.  Oh my, that sounds like chicken porn.  Girls!  Behave yourselves!

Dust bathing is a perfectly natural, albeit funny-looking, chicken activity.  Chickens don't have the capability to bathe but they need to occasionally "scrub" to keep mites & bugs at bay.  They're surprisingly clean birds & typically don't pick up bugs (we assist by keeping their roosting area clean & dry), but it's good for them to clean up every so often.  That's where dust bathing comes in.  They lay down in dry dirt & twitch around - it looks like a chicken seizure.  Chris & Sonja have a video of a chicken dust bathing here.

The black chicken is Fosters.  I think she might be developmentally disabled.  She doesn't quite "get it."  Poor thing.  But it's quite alright, we love her still the same.  And we think she finally started laying eggs...which helped her status immensely.