UPDATE : my chicken is having some kind of seizures

Original post : https://www.reddit.com/r/chickens/s/vR9RTmD0iC

I thought it might be useful to update. My chicken was having strange episodes where she would go crazy, bat eyes and beak, hit her head in the coop going around in circles and trying to escape.

Well, the mystery is solved. She is an alcoholic.

I started to suspect it when I realized that these episodes where seasonal. The final confrontation was when discussing with an old veterinary assistant that spent her summers in the country at here grandparents farm with her cousins. They were all bored pretty quickly and sometimes they gave the chickens liquor soaked bread to have some fun. Well, these chickens behaved exactly like mine : going in circles, eyes and beak buzzing, trying to escape.

It turns out that this particular chicken is especially fond of fruits. In summer, they quickly ferment on the ground. The other chickens are smart enough not to eat too many, but this one has no sense moderation.

So, I have an alcoholic chicken. She's also the only one who will try to sleep in trees instead on the coop, always the one escaping, went in all the neighbors gardens and sometimes houses, escaped a fox (lost all her butt feathers), was saved by a horse, was chased by the dog, spend quite a few nights outside the coop when we couldn't find her, one fell asleep INSIDE the electric fence. How this troublemaker is still alive is beyond me.