can chickens see in colour?

Question

can they see in colour like us?

Answer 1

What happens when chickens see red?
A company (Animalens Inc. of Wellesley, Mass) that markets red contact lenses for chickens (at 20 cents a pair), points to medical studies showing that chickens wearing red-tinted contact lenses behave differently from birds that don't. They eat less, produce more and don't fight as much. Perhaps everything looks red and they cannot distinguish combs, wattles, or blood. This decreases aggressive tendencies and birds are less likely to peck at each other causing injury. A spokesman said the lenses will improve world egg-laying productivity by $600 million a year.

Answer 2

Animals are not color blind!! The colors that animals see depends on the
species of the animal.

The retinas (the photosensitive tissue in the eye) of vertebrates (animals
with backbones) have two general types of photoreceptors in their eyes.
The cones function in high light intensities (during the day) and detect
colors. The rods function in low light (at night) and do not detect color.

Animals that are nocturnal and have very high sensitivity vision (like cats
and owls) have mostly rod photoreceptors in their retinas. So these animals
can see very well at night, but they do not see color.

Other animals, like chickens, lizards, rabbits,monkeys etc., have
cone-dominated retinas and see color very well.

Most vertebrates have two types of cones in their eyes, short-wavelength
cones that detect colors in the blue-purple range, and long-wavelengh cones
that detect colors in the red range. By mixing the to various degrees the
activation of the short- and long-wavelength cones, animals can see most
colors of the spectrum. If short-wavelength colors are more important for
the animal's survival, one might expect the short-wavelength cones to
dominate in that animal's eyes.

Old World Monkeys and humans have three types of cones in their eyes, the
short and long-wavelength cones mentioned above, and a new invention, which
are the medium-wavelength cones. This third cone types detects best colors
in the green range.

Answer 1: A general rule of thumb is if the male or female of a species is brightly
colored then that species is probably not color blind. I believe that all the primates
also see color as well as dogs, cats, some birds, fish, and insects.

Answer 3

chickens can not see in color,i was told this when i was a liitle girl about 40 years ago.

Answer 4

No. Some birds and simians see in color, but chickens don't.

Answer 5

its according to the c**k , it can make the chickens see blk & white or in colors

Answer 6

no they ca nt only some of the birds can...

Answer 7

No

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

no i think they are color blind

Answer 10

NO.