Whether a chicken takes to trees is partly down to the breed. Bigger domesticated breeds are not suited to flying (due to their weight), but can jump up to 4-5 feet. Jungle foul and other smaller breeds can fly up in to trees to roost.
Chickens in Trees
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#12My chickens roost in a tree in the back yard. It's an easy tree for them to get into, they can walk/climb up from the ground a fair way then an easy flap to get to their preferred branches.
In summer they disappear into the leaves, but in winter they're pretty obvious.
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#13The argon tree (as in the argon oil in your shampoos and soaps) is also known as the "goat tree". Please peruse these phenomenal photos of trees completely full of goats. Everyone of them looks like an album cover for some mid-00s indie band
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/tree-goats-of-morocco-argan...
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#14Down in Brazil, my grandfather used to shoot salt at the thieves climbing the trees to steal the chickens.
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#15Chickens can also swim
Do they favor the breast stroke?
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#16Related:
"The proclivity of free-ranging indigenous village chickens for night-time roosting in trees" [1]
[1] https://cabiagbio.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43170-...
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#17On population control... Are they generally considered safe to eat? That's the first thing I think of in this case...
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#18Now I have that darn Sesame Street song stuck in my head.
There are chickens in the trees
There are chickens in the trees
Won't you listen to me please
There are chickens in the trees
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#19By the title, I thought this was going to be about the theorized future of meat production as a kind of fruit, i. e., “chicken flesh growing on trees,” and the ethical questions surrounding that idea and the positivist worldview that leads to it being considered ethical, and if it is actually a good thing or not.
It would be an ironic (and sad?) thing if the human history of the chicken began in trees and ended in trees.
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#20Chickens can also swim
They also catch mice and swallow them whole. Jurassic Park style.