Chickens are smart. Just monumentally dumb compared to other things XD

And good thing the australorp has you rather than me for an owner, chickens jumping at me (or pretty much anything moving fast towards my head) get swatted XD I have watched them communicating and ducking for cover when there have been crows flitting about and they were free ranging, and remember going out to investigate the noise once because there was a serious alarm sounding in the backyard and I walked out to find this beautiful falcon perched on the clothes hoist XD