I got in trouble recently for writing that chickens are dumb. It was a poor choice of words, and I don’t even believe it. Chickens are like Labs, they are very smart at what they need to be smart about – eating bugs, working hard, staying off the road. Now, sheep, this is another matter. I won’t say sheep are dumb, but they don’t often seem as smart as chickens are. They don’t stay out of the road, they run into walls and trees, they are incapable of individual thought and action.

This doesn’t make them dumb, but now that I think about it, they are probably not as smart as chickens.