The World's First Agility Chicken.

This ex battery chicken, along with her friend, have been given a new life with Margaret, Bud's brilliant agility trainer! She cannot resist training them. Apparently they had not been used to perching, there were no perches in their cages. So she has made them some very low perches and, by using a clicker and a pocket full of chicken treats (slugs!,) she is getting them used to perching, just like normal chickens.

Apparently there is a local chicken rescue group who find these poor birds new homes, if they have no feathers (the chickens pluck them out themselves from boredom and frustration), they knit them little jackets to keep them warm until the feathers grow.

Today it was our Agility Club's Christmas Celebration, there's no prizes for guessing what the topic of conversation was, apart from the chickens of course.