Noodles' harness training program

[PippinTheChicken]

I bought 2 harnesses almost 2 years ago but never found a tame girl I could train to wear them.
Then I found my lap baby, Noodles!
Today I was playing and cuddling with her and had a lightbulb moment. I grabbed the tiny harness and put it on her.
I expected her to collapse (like Kiwi did) or trot around proudly (like Pickles did) but she didn't. She walked. Normally. I mean, she did preen a little more, but she was fine with it.

So, I am going to start training her to wear a harness! A few mins everyday wearing it, then when she's comfortable with it I will introduce the leash!
Anyone who is currently training one of their birds to wear a harness (or already has) is welcome to update here!

Attached are pics of Noodles

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Day 1

Experiment with leash- success

The harness

 

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

Little Big Shot my roo will kinda walk on a leash. He trues to back out of it sometimes but I just give him a nudge and he is fine. He just walks around eating grass.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

I started harness trainI got catnip today. Because blue just put his head down and won’t move and them falls asleep. catnip did really well she did do some backing up and got her foot stuck once or twice but other them that she walked normally and pecked around. She absolutely loved the long grass and did some sunbathing.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Following. My son is determined to harness train our chickens when they get here

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Been busy with all the butterflies and chicks!

Chicks!!!!!!!!!! butterflies are also cool. pictures Please.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

It's a long story, but when I came to the school to get the eggs and incubator, they also needed a place for some cocoons to hatch.

That’s cool

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I'll have to pause the training for a bit. Noodles has bumblefoot on both feet :\

 

[Poodlemum]

Off to go find out harnesses… I bought them for our big chickens and might need to find tiny ones now. Thumbelina watch out lol

 

[PippinTheChicken]

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