bonding

I have 4 Pekin ducks. They are 7 weeks and 4 days old and live in a very spacious run with some chickens of the same age. (They get along well and there's enough space so the ducks don't trample the chicks.) I only recently stopped putting the chicks and ducks back in their separate brooders at...

What are your favorite foods/treats for very young chicks (several days old) to begin the bonding process? Currently they won’t eat from my hand yet but I know that will change with time. This is my second chance at keeping chickens and I want these babies to be as sweet, social, and loving as...

Hi all, I have a goose bonding question. I have a Brown Chinese goose (Lucy) who’s a little over two months old who I’ve raised alongside my ducks. I tried to be really intentional about hand-raising her so that she wouldn’t be afraid of people, but I think she integrated with the duck flock &...

Hi, a bit of context; I’ve had Maui, the bird on the right, for a year now. He’s from petco so he was mistreated and is very shy and aggressive. I’ve been working with him since I got him and have had tiny progress. He hisses/bites when I get too close, or sometimes flies away. I already accept...

Hi! This is my first post, as I am a new chicken mom. I got all four of my chickens from a farm animal sanctuary, and all came from abuse/neglect cases. I got a Golden Comet/Red Star and a Rhode Island Red about a month ago, and last weekend I went back and got another Golden Comet and a Barred...

I've had my chickens for about 10 Months (Since they were a few days old). I've raised them from chicks in a brooder to chickens in a coop, basically by myself. When I'm outside their enclosure they run to me and chirp. When I clean their coop they gather around me and peck at my shoes. However...

Hi, so I recently got 2 male white pekin ducks. They were shipped together from metzer farms, and me and my family are going to keep them as pets. I read from here that if 2 ducklings are kept in the same brooder they will bond to each other and not you. But then I read from other articles that...

Hey BYC community, I have 7 easter eggers (sold to me as ameraucanas but we know how that goes) and there is one in particular who is black and white and stands upright with their neck stretched tall that is becoming quite aggressive. (Based on tail feather sexing and the size of feet I suspect...

So I’m quite new to chickens and I got some 11 week old pullets about 1 week and half ago. My family outvoted me and decided we needed to also get one laying hen. About 3 days ago we picked up this frizzle hen from a sketchy Craigslist lady. The Craigslist lady says that she is if laying age but...

Any ideas on how to bond with my chicks? They’re still quite skittish at 4 weeks old :(

Will be trying to do several of these over coming months. Most will have nothing to do with chickens, but clearly some issues to work out. Narration is tougher than I thought. The hen and chicks were all synchronized such that no worries even with simply plopping chicks on hen during...

Almost three months ago we purchased a pair of India Blue. We've kept them in a small enclosure and then a large one as we worked to get them use to us. We can now feed them from our hands. Our neighbor's peafowl will come over and ours pace and want out. I fear what may happen when we let...

Hey My dove is a week old? I think? He hatched on the 5th-6th of May (2019). Lots of feathers are coming in but is still lacking in under his wings and around his crop and his head (the head feathers are coming in). Can I keep him outside on my lap for a sometime of he must go back in his...

Hello! I have 1 week old baby chicks and I was just looking for some “bonding” advice. They are still quite skittish when I try to reach into their brooder and interact with them or even feed them. I have 9 baby chicks. I know I shouldn’t “reach into” the brooder per se, but it’s the only way I...

We've had two ducks, a khaki campbell female and a swedish blue male, for about five years, but recently the female went missing and we fear she was carried off by a predator. The male seems pretty lonely, and I think it's especially important that he has some sort of companionship with winter...

Hey, I know this isn't chicken-related but I wanted answers to my specific situation. So I am trying to bond my two rabbits, Elliot and Kazumi. Elliot is a neutered male who will be four years old in December, and Kazumi is a spayed Female who is about a year and a half years old. Elliot is a...

In March 2016, I bought two diamond doves from a pet store (first problem). The pet store was completely clueless and it was clear the poor things had never been handled. They were very skittish. They’ve definitely bonded on each other, and that’s good, because when I can’t be around, they have...

So I hatched 7 ducklings. The first few days they came when I called and snuggled on me and everything. Then 2 days ago they completely stopped and even shy away when I go to get them out. Are they bonding with each other too much? Should I start taking them out one at a time to bond with them...

It's finally happening. Our Peggy is finally well enough to get another hen to keep her company. We first bought our little 7-month old Australorp a little over a month ago. As it turns out, she was in pretty bad shape; she was stressed, lice-ridden and suffering coryza*, and that was just the...

I have 6 pullets that are 7 months old and now they walk up to me and peck me and act as if I’m not some mean human but one of them. They didn’t act like this as chicks. They were scared and freaked out even when I looked into their brooding bin. Luckily as they matured and came out of the...